- Initiation introduced the youth virtually to the life in the community.
- Initiate became a member of a specific age group
- The initiate was allowed to participate in various responsible roles in society
- Initiation ceremony allowed communion with ancestors to take place
- The rites enabled the society to select future age-group leaders
- The rites acquainted the initiates with the rules and regulations regarding the social relationships
between men and women.
- After initiation, the parents of the initiates were promoted to higher social status in society.
- During and immediately after initiation, the initiates were temporary separated from other people
and they lived either in fields forest or in other specially prepared houses away from their homes.
- Initiates went through a period of withdrawal from society, during which they received secret
instructions before they were allowed to rejoin their relatives
- It appears the initiates experienced the process of dying and being reborn.
- Integration into their families meant that they were new members with new personality traits
- They cast off their childhood and become adults, in some societies they acquired new names.
- Introduction to adult life meant the initiates were allowed to share in privileges and duties of the
society. Ie Allowed to marry and acquire property.
- Initiation prepared the youth in matters of sexual life, procreation and other domestic roles
- Initiation rites were educative. They marked the beginning of acquiring society, wisdom which is
hidden from the youth.
- Initiates learn to endure pain and hardships live with one another, obey their seniors
johnson mwenjera answered the question on February 13, 2018 at 15:27
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