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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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Izava Walk: Kotema Kerova

Izava went about its business as we talked. It was yet it wasn't. The trench was there, visible, but the waters that left their fountains in the morning were long into Bunyore if so Izava's speed can be estimated.

Kotema kerova is when somebody needs a certain cleansing that in itself isn't well justified. For instance, if my sister had a child before marrying, and it happens the child dies, she is supposed not only to attend to the child's burial but also do something else.

Once the child is burried, in this case in paternal place, she has to spend sometime with the child's father. Have sex. Fire extinguishes fire, foresters know that. If the child is in maternal home, burried there, anyone, probably my sister's crush would be the pawn in the game. She should go where she's married a washed woman.

Kukunga kihari, as I shall  later include more of sayings, is when a child and the paternal people are supposed to set off before the died woman is burried fully. The died woman could be a married or divorced lady who in a way or another, a conflict settles her to be burried where she was born. Dowry may not have been paid or the husband was cruel. When the grave is filled halfway, they leave immediately, without eating, no looking, sometimes under great cries from the child.

Kotema Kerova is also what is expected when people you are closely related to die. If my brother, sister, parent dies, I got to sleep with my wife, of course if I am married, and shed off the happenstance.

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