The migratory route of the settlement's founding patrilineage is recollected at certain ritual occasions at the village earth shrine and during the initiation ceremony (bagr).
In the past, rural communities would save up to hire the troupe for a temple festival, a house-warming party, or a novice initiation ceremony.
Frequently the teacher takes a portion of his students, normally his best or wealthiest, and makes them, in an initiation ceremony, into disciples.
In this case, a boy aged about twelve is being interviewed about a school initiation ceremony in which he was thrown over a railway embankment, breaking both arms.
For example, was there an initiation ceremony, a rite de passage, to become "the adopted son of a prominent ritual leader, and eventually a respected village council elder"?
Our traditions have evolved through the centuries and, like most traditions, they include the initiation ceremony that we are discussing today.
This is not a superior kind of public school where an initiation ceremony must take place.
Whatever it symbolises, it is certainly a nerve-wracking tribal initiation ceremony which still awaits record by one of our latter-day sociologists.
