The national dance (tshikona) is played, and people come together in the ruler's courtyard and public meeting-place (khoro). A doctor, who is a specialist in making sacred fires (maine wa mulilo), kindles the domba fire. This may never be done with matches or other artificial aids.When the fire is blazing nicely, the doctor prepares the hearth.
{so no matter what, for a long long time, it's with you, because it's built right in to the rites of passage, you will remember how to make fire on your own, even though it's just because we always do it that way, another reason questioning old ways of doing things and demanding reasons for everything is viral, especially when it's done without reverence and love. try explaining to people who live that close to the ground that you have to do it this way so you won't become dependent on outside sources for basic needs, because then if something happens to the outside source you lose everything, or they can use your dependence to enslave you, listing all the reasons why opens up long, difficult-to-explain hard-to-understand things, but they're all bad, that's what's important, so we just don't do it that way, that's all.
the real conservatives dance naked.}
