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Tukanas (Colombia).

  La Festa das Novas Flies is the rite of passage into womanhood used in this tribe Northwest Amazon. It happens when the first period, after which it remains isolated the girl for about 8 weeks in a room of the house built for this purpose is coming.

During this period you will be led to believe that is initiated in the underworld and will be attacked at any time by a demon named Noo. To complete the rite the other inhabitants of the house venture into that room disguised with masks and hoods into believing they are incarnations of Noo. After that, the girl's body is painted white so as to protect the devil, taking it to the third morning of that room like a real woman.

Swallowing Sperm...

The Sambia believe that men and women are born with a TINGU. The tingu is the body part that allows procreation. A woman tingu ready to play when the first menstruation occurs. In contrast, men are born with their dry tingu and the only way to fill it with the "male milk" which is nothing but the semen of other sexually mature men. They believe that drinking male scent of other men will make the boys are strong and virile. That's why in the privacy of the forest, a young will perform oral sex to young, unmarried usually between 13 and 21 years. Participants are advised to "drink the male essence" in the widest possible to obtain more strength.

Around age 13, a young initiates puberty and begins a new stage with her too. The ritual of nasal bleeding and some repeated blows to purify the young man from that time, is considered mature and can provide "male milk" young children going starting their way to manhood.

In the Sambia culture, with semen, the spirits of the ancestors transmitted, life is created, the body develops and strengthens. The age of individuals is producing a social hierarchy in which women are relegated to a second term because wearing the semen of men, and that children should eat to produce sperm. Mature women naturally because their bodies contain a body of menstrual blood accelerates development.

Thaipusam: A Hindu festival in Malaysia

The Thaipusam is celebrated in several cities in Malaysia, especially in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, which gathers around a million people to give thanks and show your appreciation to Murugan son of Lord Shiva. The most impressive festival is part of flagellation in which participants most devoted cheeks and tongue with small iron bars are drilled and hooks dig into the body (with which even pull carts) without apparent pain without just bleed. Besides these piercings also carry over iron structures with figures or symbols of gods above (called Kavadi) weighing tens of kilograms and are nailed to the body.

Kavadi Each carrier has a group of assistants that follow, you are encouraged and dance beside her. They say no pain thanks to state of trance found after preparation by which participants must pass, two days fasting, meditating and praying before beginning the ceremony.

The piercings, facts on the tongue and in the mouth, is to show that the pilgrim has temporarily given up the ability to speak to concentrate on their god and show how they have left their fate in their hands to protect you from feeling any pain or bleeding. Also to remind of transience or temporality of the physical body in contrast to the permanent spiritual life of truth. Your goal is to escape from this cycle to reach the spiritual universe.

The pilgrimage ends once they reach the Batu Cave (on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur) and do their last dance with the energies that make them fit after hard day. Now they are ready to return to their daily lives and try to consolidate the lessons learned during the ceremony.

Mourning Ritual Shiites Muslims

In the month of Muharram Muslim Shiites remember with mourning the death of one of its most important leaders.

Until here everything is normal, what is really strange is when all participants begin to beat his chest with his hands and then cut with knives and other sharp objects.

The Ashura festival is celebrated throughout the Muslim community, but is a central Shiite religious commemoration.

The festival falls on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Muslim lunar calendar, and it recalls the Islamic world a voluntary fast when Noah left the ark and the salvation of Moses from the Egyptians by God's.

The Shiites also remember the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed, occurred in 680 in the city of Karbala, which is in the current Iraqi territory.

To honor him, thousands of men and women dressed in black march through the streets beating their chests and chanting. They also perform rituals of mourning and passionate recreations of martyrdom: there are those who emulate the function of Hussein flagellation with chains or cutting his forehead until blood runs them through the body.

Some Shiite leaders try to discourage bleeding, saying it creates a bad image of their faith. In return, he proposed to the faithful donate blood.

In Islamic antiquity, the Shia were a political faction that supported Ali, son of Muhammad and the fourth caliph (temporal and spiritual leader) of the Muslim community.

Ali was killed in 661 and his main opponent, Muawiya, became caliph. It was this murder that ended up causing the Great Schism that divided Muslims Shiites and Sunnis.

Muawiya was succeeded by his son Yazid, but Ali's son, Hussein, refused to accept its legitimacy, sparking a confrontation between them.

Hussein and his followers were massacred in battle near Karbala in the year 680. The deaths of Ali and Hussein gave rise to the Shia cult of martyrdom. Today, the Shiites are about 15% of the Muslim population in the world.