Alex Ohan (ask@alex-ohan.com) Swaziland Reed Dance – -.wmv
Posted by admin in Necklace Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:30 25 Comments
Umhlanga, or Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi and Zulu tradition held in August or September of each year. Tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi/Zulu girls and women travel from their villages to participate in the eight-day event. In Swaziland they gather at the Queen Mother’s royal village, which currently is Ludzidzini Royal Village, while Nongoma is the site of the royal reed dance in Zululand. After arriving at the Queen Mother’s royal residence, or Enyokeni Palace in Zululand, the women disperse the following night to surrounding areas and cut tall reeds. The following night they bundle them together and bring them back to the Queen Mother to be used in repairing holes in the reed windscreen surrounding the royal village. After a day of rest and washing the women prepare their traditional costumes consisting of a bead necklace, rattling anklets made from cocoons, a sash, and skirt. Many of them carry the bush knife they used to cut the reeds as a symbol of their virginity. Today’s Reed Dance ceremony developed in the 1940′s and 50′s from the Umcwasho custom where young girls were placed in age regiments to ensure their virginity. Once they reached the age of marriage they would perform labor for the Queen Mother followed by dancing and a feast. The official purpose of the annual ceremony is to preserve the women’s chastity, provide tribute labor for the Queen Mother, and produce solidarity among the women through working together. The women sing …
@kayroxx well if we edit it that mean it is not a heritage any more. that mean we creat our own culture not the one our great great great parents left ours. So what the point to call it hiritage?
@kayroxx well mate look where the modern world is taking this planet. before u say something think twice. and i m not sure west had some ancient cultural, coz the more i look the more i notice that there is nothing old really like in Africa or Asia
@Boobswanker lool it is real life but sadly we re losing that beautiful tradition around Africa
@bigkeno true say, and we dont go around stealing other people culture and tradition and calling them ours like some people do with egypt, israel, and lot of things.
@King Mswati also has boobiez?? Pause at 11sec!!
i am sure the photographer had a thing for the princess
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@Boobswanker if you think that you can dance with naked girls then sorry.
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An actual STARGATE/PORTAL-THING was caught on film in New Mexico. The footage can be found within the short-film entitled “SUDDEN PORTHOLE”, which is parked at the PROJECT CAMELOT YouTube page (it’s under the George Noory video).
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Me too, alex
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@AjahDawn (Cont.) My point is, who actually is the most over sexualized, a “decently clothed” woman in a tight dress, push-up bra, make-up and high-heels or these women who are simply as nature made them, doing what they have done for centuries?
@AjahDawn I get what you’re saying but so what if were partly “sexual”? What the hell is so wrong with that? If these women display sexuality (it’s natural you know) in a dance then that’s fine. Sometimes, “western” women display their sexuality dancing in a most overtly sexual manner, but as long as they’re “clothed” nobody says anything. Why are people so hung up on nakedness? At least these women are not full of dangerous, ugly silicon. Healthy, proud women, so good luck to them, I say!
I love swaziland…. miss the reed dance… well done guys… never let ur culture down no matter what people may say… proud of you…
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When an African woman is caught naked, her instinct is to cup her hands on her privates. When a westerner is caught naked, her hands go to her breasts. I think this says a lot about our cultures. For us African women our breast are first and foremost to feed our babies. These women dancing dressed as they are is nothing sexual. It is beautiful because this IS our culture, our traditions.
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Obviously in those cultures (which is very rare tribal cultures) they don’t see breast as sexual.