Temopral ordering, the Gebusi and re-examining curses due to them.

Temopral ordering, the Gebusi and re-examining curses due to them.
by valpetridis @ 2008-10-25 - 23:19:44
Here is a little science on the temporal field and I will forgo a lengthyexamination of the science till next week and focus on it then.
I will say this, the temporal field predates anything occurring. All things have an order of appearance, a place and time in Time. The field maintains temporal coherency. In fact, as mentioned before, everything relative to everything has a place, time and space, and each thing has never been in the same place twice as the temporal field increases as the edge of the universe’s growth: everything within the universe moves. Each moment is distinct from each other moment and is reflected by the quantum reflections each distinct moment makes in Time.
Here is a quick report on the Gebusi and thier idea of causality based on Magic.Summary: In chapter 3 “Lives of Death” of his book, the Gebusi, Bruce Knauft examines the Gebusi ritual and belief that surrounds death. The Gebusi do not consider babies under 7 months old to be fully human and the males ignore such infants’ deaths. The mother and female kin cry for the dead infant and the father sits somewhere between the men and women waiting to bury his dead child. All deaths of those over the age of 7 months are considered caused by humans, either as a physical act or due to sorcery. The Gebusi believe in two types of sorcery: ‘bogay’ and ‘ogowili’, ‘Bogay’ is parcel magic or the manipulation of someone’s fecal and other ‘leavings’. This magic is used to explain long term illness leading to death. ‘Ogowili” are considered spiritual attackers that eat someone’s insides and then magically sow the victim up after the attack. This type of magic is used to explain sudden deaths, including falls from trees. Sometimes the body that is left to decay during the morning period prior to burial makes a sign pointing to the sorcerer who caused the death and, in such occurrences, this sorcerer is often killed on the spot. The Gebusi hold séances to investigate the origin of sorcery and sometime retaliate with violence if the spirits point to a culprit; at the very least the séance is believed to appease the dead, the kin, the dead’s co-habiting villagers and the people of the surrounding settlements.Response: Knauft thought celebrating at the Gebusi wake was very different to western costumes of morning. Knauft seems unaware of the various post-death practices and types of wakes people in the west partake in after one dies and is buried. In Mississippi many Blacks celebrate and play music at funerals. They do this to commemorate the freedom believed to be gain by the dead after leaving this world. This practice originated as slaves began celebrating a slave’s freedom from slavery due to death. To such slaves death was better than life as a slave. In this sense Knauft would find various death, funeral and wake practices in the west are more congruent with the Gebusi practices than he was aware of at the time of the writing of his book.Question: Does the Gebusi’s ideas concerning sorcery have any real world origin? Since on some occasions Gebusi have been known to unbury and eat parts of the dead killed as sorcerers to show acceptance of that sorcerer’s death, and this is evidence of some cannibal practices, could the Gebusi have suffered or practiced cannibalism that included re-sewed their victims to hide their cannibalism? Did someone once tamper with feces, or was there a disease, that killed many that made it seem as if someone had killed people by tampering with peoples‘ 'leavings';?
Since there are no curses the idea that curses cause every death is problematic. Even for the Gebusi, what they call a curse is actually a blessing. They are correct that other people’s ideas and impressions affect people.I will refer to this more later.I think it is topically covered but as this idea of curses is thought to be the causes of ill amongst many indigenous people in the world it was worth examining it more closelyThe addendum to the first book on this subject will rectify this misconception with in the frame work of already existing indigenous peoples’ beliefs.