On the contrary, communities like the Maasai do drink blood but how does the holy writ put a stamp on it?
– JM
On the verge of Kenya gaining independence, there existed a clique of warriors called ‘Mau Mau’ who used to gather at the peaks of mountains majorly to plot on how to chase away the white man. But there was also a singer among them who narrated their travel ordeals and at one instance had claimed that they refrained from slaughtering a dead goat found by the roadside so that they could not risk encountering any bad omen (‘thaahu’) that would be obliviously linked to it.
To be honest music is a cool medium we use to push beliefs to generations ahead of us. Abhoring things that can cause bad omens, drinking blood being one of them, is a Kikuyu cultural belief that the latter singer was pinning somewhere so that we the smartphone generation could see. I believe that there could not be a more appropriate time to open and view his important message than now.
A Maasai boy drinking an animal blood from a traditional bottle. Credit: JM
On the contrary, communities like the Maasai do drink blood but how does the holy writ put a stamp on it? Leviticus 17:13-141 explicitly connotes that the life of an animal is in it’s blood and warns that whoever partakes it shall be cut off. Lest we forget that donating blood or even receiving it from donors would be breaking this law too.
You may argue that blood is full of proteins and be aggressive enough to swallow it raw trinkling from a head that have been cut off but I just warned you: There could be a karma tethered to it. Bad omens are actually real! The people who drink blood do it out of ignorance since no one probably told them of the consequences. If it’s in their culture then the Maasai are doomed. These children of Jah will continue to be ‘destroyed from lack of knowledge.’
Footnote:
- King James Version (KJV) of the scriptures used. ↩︎
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