Ethiopia’s Omo Valley | Africa’s Last Frontier, National Geographic Magazine: Mazes Tame Bulls in Bull-Jumping Manhood Ceremony | Dimeca, Ethiopia

Mazes Tame Bulls in Bull-Jumping Manhood Ceremony | Dimeca, Ethiopia

Gaito gets the bulls ready for the jumping. Mazes like Gaito all live together in the bush and their only job is to run bull-jumping ceremonies and try to somehow survive. When they marry they will get a dowry and maybe land but for now they have to survive on payments for bull jumping ceremonies. Maze will only eat milk, honey and meat. Once they marry their diet can change. This is also the period when they know who their wife will eventually be but it is their time to have sex with every woman they can in the village who is not their betrothed. 

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