#herdsmen or pastoralists don't practice agriculture
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dontswallow · 2 months ago
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Dinka cover their skin in cow dung ash to protect it from mosquito and tsetse, as they are mostly naked. They bleach their hair with cow urine. They are cattle herdsmen and each man rides a "personality ox" which represents him and his manhood
These are the same traits as the god Shiva — covered in dung ash, copper hair, naked save for a tiger pelt, and riding an ox
Early Indo-Aryans were also cattle herdsmen, perhaps they shared similar customs to the Dinka
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