One of Them: My Life Among the Maasai of Kenya

by Eti Dayan

parting ways, all the men go to everyone’s villages, carrying meat with them as a gift for their wives. (45) Slowly, she poured milk over it: This resembles certain rules in the Bible, where, before an animal is slaughtered, it must be blessed, i.e., symbolically transported from an everyday secular state to one of holiness. This was usually done by laying hands upon it