WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
Support Healthy Aging By Maintaining Balance — On One Leg: Mayo Clinic study suggests to use it or lose it -
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver: Oliver’s beloved poem has brought comfort to many mourning the loss of a loved one -
How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used to Help Physicians Identify Cancer Earlier: AI tools can analyze images and tissue samples more quickly and effectively, leading to more accurate diagnoses
-
Categories
Tag Archives: Ngai
Traditional Inheritance and Burial Rites of the Maasai People
Traditional practices of ‘The Father’s Chest’ and Predator Burials in Maasai culture
For the Maasai people, death does not traditionally hold any secrets of the afterlife. Once an individual has passed, their journey has ended. All of their possessions and any of their sins are transferred to the loved ones who survive … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged African death rituals, Cattle, Death, Death Rituals, Funeral Rites, Inheritance, Kenya, Maasai, Maasai people, Ngai, predator burial, Tanzania, the father's chest, Tradition
6 Comments
