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PYGYMIES
Breakfast. Drive to PIGMEEYAM. About 200 thousand pygmies now living in the forests of Central Africa - descendants of the indigenous people of ancient times. New pygmies are mentioned in Egyptian documents of about 4500 years ago. Pygmies are divided into several groups. Their short stature before noteworthy that the word "pygmy" was included in the dictionaries of many peoples to refer undersized man. They are distinguished by yellow-brown skin and thick fat deposits in the lower part of the body. Neighboring nations have always fought with the pygmies and tried to destroy them, considering them inferior. In turn, the Pygmies believe its higher neighbor clumsy as elephants.

Pygmies, hunters - Gatherers lived families. They belong to the forest, as the motherly womb, the forest protects them and feeds. He gives them everything necessary for survival, starting with material for the construction of roofs of huts, finishing with game for hunting. Collection of tubers, larvae and termites provides them with up to 70% of their diet.

Collecting - Care of women and Hunting - Business men. Before hunting Pygmies ceremonies coaxing the gods and cleanse the sacred fire. Unless sichtat the ceremony and honoring of ancestors, the Pygmies are paying little attention to religious ceremonies, but the dancing and music - a daily ritual.
Wood - a religion of the Pygmies.

"Children of the forest" - so called this nation. Gorillas, pygmies called the "hairy people". Pygmies- Is a classic example of what a significant role played by geographic isolation and stimulated its genetic changes in the formation of races. Equatorial forest in which they live African Negro - a sort of an island, a fragment of the primitive gene pool in the heart of the African continent. The people there are in extreme conditions and their short stature - is an adaptive response and the selective advantage for the eternal lack of food. Flushing regime of the equatorial rain forest leads to permanent removal from the soil of many essential for living organism of chemical elements.
The resulting deficit of calcium and phosphorus in plant foods creates the specific geochemical situation, in response to that, the racial complex responsible growth and a decrease in miniature addition. Lowest value of body length at negrilley (141sm) was recorded among the tribes living in the center of the equatorial forest of Zaire, and the longest 149 cm among the CAR pygmies living near the borders of savanna.

Likembe - A musical instrument helps to sing for the forest. Primitive way of life pygmy destroyed immediately came into contact with another civilization. Pygmy, like the Bushmen, by nature collectivist. He has no concept of private property, because it used delitvse with their own members, all of what has to date not thinking about tomorrow. Engagement of one of tungsten plants Pygmies've taken in one day and drank the whole week's pay, in the hope that the next day their Bantu neighbors repay them in kind. However, did not. And the pygmies were starving and dying. I had to let them back into the woods.
Another case where the old man - a pygmy hired to work in the kitchen at the factory. He was the first day gave his countrymen are all stored in the kitchen supplies, and some of the dishes. And it was not theft. The old man and had no idea that one person can hide a lot of food, at a time when others go hungry next. Physically, the Pygmies also can not adapt to new conditions, because their bodies adapted to life in the forest. In their villages, an abundance of old people, because in the forests of unknown disease African villages. When they instead of water from pure forest spring begin to drink stagnant water, then the set of disease lies in wait for them, because they have no immunity.

But the most dangerous for them is strangely for equatorial latitudes - the sun. The Pygmies do not tolerate prolonged exposure to direct rays of the sun, they get heat stroke, burns and suffering from skin diseases.

In Uganda, Fort Portal there are pygmies among the ruined huts, and where they are engaged in agriculture. In Fort Portal for the Semliki River, where the road ends, completely different Pygmies. They are strong are strong, cheerful and businesslike, unfamiliar with the temptations of civilization, living a full life.

Clothing kept to a minimum. Women in aprons decorated with colorful scales beetles. Married otichayutsya necklaces and bracelets made of shells from the bark of them burnt figures. Girls do without aprons and walk around in the costume of Eve. Men leather rag whether fur a belt to which is attached in the front apron and rear puchrk grass. The beam seems to have completely hygienic purpose, protecting him from all trouble, when he sits down on the bare earth or stones. If a man leans over, green tail bulging vverh.U Pygmy mainly as a rule one child. The harsh living conditions in the forest does not allow its residents to have many children. Eaten in large leaves. From the fig tree bark strips make fabric tapu, which is famous in the local markets.

The main occupation of women building and repairing homes. No victuals Pygmies do not hold. Musical instrument likembe resembles a long meal at the edges of which are attached a string of tendons. In each house only on one instrument. When asked why one tool should be in the house, the Pygmies are responsible, that should play well, but you can only play well when you know only their likembu. Is it possible to immediately do two things well? Most pygmies are freezing in the woods, but they are killing animals is not hiding their skins. When asked why they merzunt, being able to sew themselves and wear clothes made of animal skins, they answer: "We are children of the forest. Wood has created us as we are, and he loves us so. And if we put on other people's skins, wood confuse us with the beasts, and will not help us. "

Usually in a forest camp Pygmies 15-20 huts in which lived the same number of families. They are good friends and understand each other.

Pygmies - Forest nomads. They live in one place for six months, while there are around the game. Then with a light heart, leave their villages and move to another place, sometimes for hundreds of kilometers. There is reason Pygmies may withdraw from the place - is death. If someone nibul died, so the forest is not like that people lived in this place, so Pygmies have to go. Pygmies Batwa Pygmies sure. Mushrooms mtupaega Pygmies produce powder. Pygmy fill his pipe tobacco wood, top snowed mtupaega powder, and puts top glimmer. This narkoticheskeo veschetvo, mtupaega fungus, grows in the area of Lake Kivu and Edward. The Twa are the main suppliers of the drug on the market.

Before hunting in silence Pygmies conjure, they mentally access the bows and arrows and ask them to be a sign, they ask the forest for help. Then they also litter the animal to be hunted, smear the network to the smell disappeared person and the animal is not sensed them. Pigmeni can start a fire with tinder or two stones. But doing so is rare, because a fire in the middle of their village burns day and nochyu.Kogda greased droppings network Pygmies raise on his shoulder, taking in his hands and bows and arrows, and together go to the forest, they stanosyatsya like fairy gnomes. Women and children behind, too, go with them, because their task is to drive production. Under the canopy of equatorial forests ancient ancestors of the Pygmies includes about 20 thousand years ago and stayed there. From the eternal heat, they moved to the eternal coolness and eternal twilight.

Ever since the ancient times known as pygmies beautiful dancers. A letter of the pharaoh of Egypt, the 6 th dynasty Neferkara (about 2000 BC), which refers to the prisoner Pygmies - master of dance. Pygmies beautiful mimes. They like classical music, such as oratorios Gendelya.Na the world famous Congolese school of painting Poto-Poto, but it owes its origin to the Pygmies. Pygmies were decorated in this simple and elegant style of its products from the horn and drawings. Pygmy drawings reminiscent of rock paintings of African Pygmies have neolita.To express themselves in a creative manner, which was inherent in the people of the Stone Age. Poetic myths and legends of the Pygmies, they have a subtle humor, an innate sense of rhythm, the researchers say their culture, that in each Pygmies live actor and an artist.

In various Pygmy tribes have their own methods of hunting elephants. Famous hunters such as Bob Foster talked with Pygmies often to learn the secrets of their hunt. So surprised to learn that the most vulnerable spot for elephants - the bladder. Pygmies toss the spear just there. Pygmies in the forests of the Rwenzori creep up to the sleeping elephant and cut the tendons of his hind legs. When the elephant stops to move him to make spears. In any Pygmy village have a full team of hunters to the elephants. Pygmy apparently did not know how to count to 10, so as to question how many killed, how many have extracted most successful hunters, they answer: "Do not sochtesh."

On the eve of hunting pygmies go to the forest for large seeds Cola. They are boiled, pounded and boiled again. The juice of these fruits to the flavor of the drink cola, which pygmies use for many centuries.

Pygmies incredibly agile and brave, but they are very trusting. Pigmayos Greek - the size of a fist. They are about 80 thousand. They live in the virgin forests on the banks of the Ituri-west of Lake Mobutu Sese-Seko. This tribe of Pygmies Pygmies, Efe and akka.Hizhiny weave of flexible twigs and covered with leaves of palm trees. Pygmies at night, warming themselves by the fire, and sometimes during the day, because the forest is always damp and humid air. The extraction is divided on strictly established tradition. Offal, pieces of meat laid out on the leaves. The first portion receives the hunter who killed a game, then owner of the weapon and the dog, then all the rest. The Pygmies do not know how to cultivate the land

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