MAASAI RIGHT OF PASSAGE - ONE ON ONE WITH TRADITIONAL CHIEFS & AGE-SET LEADERS part 5

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The last age set's initiation is Orngesherr (junior's elder initiation) and marks the status of a junior elder. It is performed in a selected camp that contains twenty or more houses. Every one in the age set looks forward to this final initiation. Every man is honored with an elder's chair in this ceremony. In the early morning of the day of the event, he will sit on the chair and be shaved by his wife. If a man has more than one wife, it is the older wife's responsibility to shave the husband. This chair becomes a man's friend until it is broken. If a man dies before the chair breaks, his older son will adopt the chair. After this ceremony, a man would become an elder and would assume full responsibility of his own family. He is now allowed to move away from his father's homestead and form his own homestead. However, even though the man is now an independent man, he would still have to rely on his father's advice. A man would assume total responsibility of his family at the age of about 35 years.It is important to note that many of these initiations and rituals have been eroding due to outside influences. We are told to abandon our way of life and to embrace western ways of life, which has been deem reliable and sufficient to ours. Our culture remains uncertain in the face of modernism, western religion, and environmental challenges."It takes one day to destroy a house; to build a new house will take months and perhaps years. If we abandon our way of life to construct a new one, it will take thousands of years", Maasai belief.@Kenya CitizenTV @ntv@Julius Ole Kuyioni @Julius Kuyioni @SAMSON SIMPIRI@SANGIDA TV​​@Sidaivan​@SIDAI COMMUNITY TV @MASAI TV OFFICIAL @Maasai Nation @Timo Opoti