Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 156
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 156 the mountains and would shout, ‘Revenge, revenge,’ in the most fearful of voices. Like this, H a mmah would come out of whoever had been killed and the owl would fly around in the air shouting, ‘Revenge, revenge!’ When revenge had been taken, then the owl of that person would die. And whoever’s revenge wasn’t taken or couldn’t be taken, that tribe’s owl would remain in the valleys, flying around saying ‘Revenge, revenge!’ The worst part about this belief was that it was unending. Upon killing someone, revenge had to be taken and this kept carrying on! The fire to take revenge remained on going within the tribes. If someone wanted to tease the other tribesmen as cowardly, they would say, “What mouth can you show in front of us, the owls of your relatives are still flying around in the valleys,” meaning that you are so cowardly you can’t even take revenge for your dead relatives.