Jesus’ death is a Taboo in Logooli traditions. Nothing good from it.

This image of Jesus and two thieves on the cross would drive any Logooli traditional observer as unacceptable and not worth to refer for any deliverances

Jesus was killed. That is kulumiindwa. To be killed is a grave sin in Logooli traditions without atonement, The killers can only run away on the least as part of their cleansing. Never again to associate or share in anything with the relatives; not water, not paths, not playgrounds – nothing. And no matter how friendly the person was, you do not live your life recalling their name. 

It is Easter holidays and Logooli community is pacified with the mood that Jesus died and did resurrect in show of power over death. Though still a wonder a century and a quarter since Valogooli got into contact with missionaries, songs and sermons have endeavored to bring the message home. That Jesus to appear as if one of us – and us the Israelites. But Logooli traditions have hardly been invoked in the core discussions of Jesu’s death.

To rush to resurrection as an end that justifies means is kidding. Logooli traditions while hating killing of people, does not look at death as a primary life sting as Christianity portrays. Neither does it think the dead are in need of a better life. If anything, the dead do not need to be too minded of by the living ones. To lead a life of thinking where you will go after dying is but worrying uselessly. Traditions require us to follow customs. The rest falls into place.

Jesus at 33, a prime age for family, hits the community that such a lad is to have a family and work to raise it and be service to the community. It is unnatural for a man at such an age to claim a different order in clash of the establishment. No social worker starts by not recognizing a people’s way of life. And to make it worse, a Logooli lad would not get hold of a lash as Jesus did at the market in a temple to lay on old women or men – a curse.

The culture of crucifying people is preposterous in the civil Logooli customs. How barbarous and narcissistic! It is like killing is not enough; like ingoko that you need to roast a little over fire to increase delicacy. 3 kills on a cross and ironical that as some do it pleasurely others are greatly mourning and disturbed. Such is a society that the Bible collects its wise teachings for many church hours at the expense of our traditional reflects!

Dying emptily at that age in Logooli you are as well as an outcast. An active man who is going to the grave with sperms sac intact – no visible results – is a kin to having no good-will to the growth and continuation of the tribe. You get the thorn in your dick before burial; not on buttocks (which was for children understanding). Go away, killer of tribe.

A community is not changed overnight. Three years of Jesus was impatient of all godly desires. The Logooli traditions that stand tall today developed over generations to consider many possible scenarios and outcomes. For God not to use this natural process of driving change and appear in a capitalistic format of one brainy individual is another wonder. 

Yes, if you are killed you will be buried at dead of night. The first cock should find the menace gone. Joseph of Arithamea took the body of Jesus and buried at sunset. In Logooli those are witch hours or thereabouts. Children are told of snakes, ogres, wake of bad spirits at the fall of sunlight. A normal dead body is buried in the day, preferably at noon. 

A dead achieved man or woman is whom a descendant goes saying, “Guuga noho guuku vaanvoolelanga,”; my grandmother and grandfather used to tell me… not what Mathew Mark Luke John does as true gospels; we do not refer to our friends or peers on how to lead an accomplished life. No matter how heavenly your peer is; he has not yet lived enough to see the good and the ugly of life.

It is therefore in the founding of this article that the story of Jesus's death puts a sharp knife on the core values and cultural practices of Logooli people. To look at the abhorred as acceptable. That the few instances of claiming that Jesus came to strengthen Abrahamic law and not oppose it is a scapegoat to hide the soft deviances.