"Trickster governs first menstruation rituals for girls, prowling on guard around them. Known as the Eland Bull dance, this ancient Kalahari ritual is timed by the moon, so that a girl is released with New Moon to grow fat as the eland grows fat for the hunter (Power and Watts, 1997). Women of the camp flash naked buttocks as they sing and step to some of the oldest music in the world, the Rain/Eland scale. Men can only admire but not approach close to the girl’s seclusion hut. Her potency, called n/om by the Ju/’hoansi, provides rocket fuel to carry the whole community with her into First Creation, if they shed blood together (Keeney and Keeney, 2013). She is at the center of the Bushman universe and this dance is the most probable candidate for the longest continuous religious tradition of humanity, at a guess, 70,000–100,000 years old. Return to first creation indeed."
Camilla Power, How to breathe, C Power - Journal of Global Faultlines, 2022 - JSTOR
Have you gone through the "radical anthropology" talks on vimeo? Tons of info there! Camilla Power cites Brad Keeney in her 2022 paper. Keeney was a professor in Minnesota here and he traveled the world studying shamanism. Then he focused on the San Bushmen and he's the only outsider accepted as a "owner of N/om" in their culture. So he goes there once a year - and he has interviews with the San Bushmen female spiritual healers. I wouldn't let the "Marxist" label hold you back. I think Brad Keeney has figured out the secret of our original human culture - as did Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in her book "The Harmless People" - since she lived with an uncontacted group for two years - in the 1950s. Of course the male anthropologists dismissed her book!! Patriarchy is a deep psychophysiological blockage that became dominant with the rise of plow farming around the world - and storing grains etc. So modern humans are literally mind controlled by left-brain dominance. The moon cycle is a psychic magnetic electrogravitic energy first experienced internally in the pineal gland!! Noncommutativity debunks modern science - so eversince Plato we've had an inaccurate foundation for science - hence our accelerating ecological and social justice crisis on Earth. And of course the deepening psychological denial about it. hahahaha
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