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Primitive Lyrics
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“Primitive Lyrics” After reading the first piece by Dama and Bowra, my impression was that it is a chant of a hunter. A hunter who is about to go out into the wild and bring food back to his people. The part of the lyric where is calls himself the food-master makes me believe that he is the person responsible for hunting animals and feeding his people with it. I believe by asking may the different animals come and fall down, and let us find honey and onmions, that it is a spiritual chant to a high power to draw the animals near and help him to find other food during his hunt. The second piece by Bushman I thought to be a chant describing either a certain time of the year at when the tribe gathers their harvest or it is related to a spiritual act where the people fast and wait until the young moon to eat. I took the young moon as being our new moon. I think that this is talking about the tribe always waits until the new moon of summer to harvest their crops, then after harvesting then they are able to eat plentiful. Also after reading it several times I seemed to me that it may be a spiritual act that the chant is about. It is an act where the people are not allowed to eat for a period of time until after the new moon has came and they can eat the following day.
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