Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die
When you were young and your heart was an open book.
I can't for the life of me remember why I got round to thinking about a final solution to the Jupno problem, but it made me do more research into Papua New Guinea and the origin of the Sing Sing and particularly the Goroka Sing Sing.
If you want please watch the video at the bottom of the link from 3.50 minutes , I've only had a quick view so if you want watch the 3 examples of people cracking sticks together and rubbing them between their hands. I wondered if this came from teaching women and children to make fire or just a celebration of the discovery of fire.
Papua New Guinea: Tribes, Rituals and Sing Sings
This also made me think about the Asaro version.
I wondered if the origin of this story wasn't the collapse of a stone dam causing a flood and the rebuilding of the dam with wooden bracing poles. Death dancing wildly would relate to the loss of life from the original flood. and the stone heads and long, pointed fingers would relate to moving slowly and to the difficulty of rebuilding it. Covering themselves with mud would be because of the muddy water from a sudden deluge burying bodies. it could have been a rival tribe, although they don't seem to know who, or maybe just a natural disaster.
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