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of disease, and from divining, and digging up poisons. When men are perishing, being destroyed by sorcerers, he goes and digs up the poisons, and purifies those whom the sorcerers are poisoning. |
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When the Amatongo make a man ill, he cries, "Hai, hai, hai."
30 They cause him to compose songs, and the people of his home assemble and beat tune to the song the Amatongo have caused him to composethe song of initiation, a song of professional skill. |
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Some dispute and say, "No. The fellow is merely mad. There is no Itongo in him." Others say, "O, there is an Itongo in him; he is already an inyanga." |
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The others say, "No; he is mad. Have you ever hidden things for him to discover by his inner sight, since you say he is an inyanga?" |
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They say, "No; we have not done that." |
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They ask, "How then do you know he is an inyanga?" |
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They say, "We know it because he is told about medicines, which he goes to dig up." |
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They reply, "O! he is a mere madman. We might allow that he is an inyanga if you had concealed things for him to find, and he had discovered what you had concealed. But you tell us what is of no import, as you have not done this." |
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As they are talking thus and disputing about concealing things for him to find, at night when he is asleep he dreams that the man of his people who is dead, and who is causing him to begin to be an inyanga, tells him saying, "They were disputing with each other, saying you are not an inyanga." |
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He who is beginning to be an inyanga asks, "Why do they say I am not an inyanga?" |
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He replies, "They say you are not an inyanga, but a mere mad man; and ask if they have hidden things for you to discover, since the others say you are an inyanga." He says, "Tell me who they are who say so." |
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He replies, "So-and-so and So-and-so were disputing." |
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The man asks, "Do you say they lie when they say so?" |
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He replies, "Be quiet. Because they say so, I say you shall be a greater inyanga than all others, and all men in the world shall be satisfied that you are a great inyanga, and they shall know you." |
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The man who is beginning to be an inyanga says, "For my part I say they speak the truth when they say I am mad. Truly they have never hidden anything for me to find." |
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Then the man who was an inyanga, he who is initiating him, says, "Just be quiet. I will take you to them in the morning. And do you appear on a hill; do not come upon them suddenly; but appear on a hill which is concealed, and cry 'Hai, hai, hai;' cry thus on the hill which is concealed, that they may hear. When you cry 'hai, hai, hai,' if they do not hear, then go on to a hill which is open; do not expose yourself much; as soon as you expose yourself, cry 'Hai, hai, hai,' so that they may just hear. When they hear that it is you, go down again from the hill, and return to the one which is concealed. So I say they will see and understand that they have spoken of a man who is beginning to |
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