Marriage
Marriage is always
contracted with a person of another race uteri, with the particularity that
implies, by the man's parents, the dowry to the woman's parents. The Wayuu
occasionally practiced polygamy, which is a framework of prestige. Within
Wayuu society, women play an important social role.
Rites
The Wayuu have male
and female shamans, who for his cures using traditional techniques singing
with maraca, use of snuff, suction of pathogens, etc..
Funeral Rites
The bones of
the deceased are placed in an urn and women should bathe the deceased. There
are two funerals.
La GuajiraLand of cactus, prickly
pear and cujíes growing between the stones of the savannah, where a drop of
water is the life for all. Region surrounded by a great gulf which washes
the coast making it a land of fresh water sediments.
During the exhumation, one can
not mourn because after the spirits Jepira not want to go," says the
graduate student in computer science, which opens in the ritual. will be a
long day.
She must be awake 24 hours,
surrounded by relatives who speak and sing for him not to rest. If you do,
the dead can take over his body. The smell chirrinchi-liquor made from
fermented sugar cane, is so pervasive that it seems to get drunk to the
present. A woman dressed in a colorful blanket and headdress move out,
along with his young daughter, the contents of two jars (symbolizing the men
and women) throughout the cemetery. Are giving them to take guests to come
from the beyond. The air is filled with the smoke of snuff, which puffs
out by a group of women
Some women bathe the coffins with
several bottles of whiskey, which pass from hand to hand.The receiving
container quaff a drink from the bottle and then it happens. Others cover
their faces with a handkerchief sorry. The polls are uncovered and those
responsible for the exhumation are quick to cover the skull of the deceased
with a white cloth. The audience watches expectantly. Inside the
coffin there are only bones that are cleaned with a cloth soaked in chirrinchi
and arranged in a coffer of marble. In this task occupy more than an hour
