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Updated: May 20, 2025
Again, amongst the Masai in time of drought a charm called ol-kora is thrown into a fire; the old men encircle the fire and sing: "God of the rain-cloud, slake our thirst, We know thy far-extending powers, As herdsmen lead their kine to drink, Refresh us with thy cooling showers." HOLLIS, p. 348.
Now one of the tribes of southeast Australia is that of the Dieri. The ceremonies are symbolic: there is "blood to symbolise the rain" and two large stones "representing gathering clouds presaging rain," just as the New Caledonian sends up clouds of smoke to symbolise rain-clouds, and the Masai, we have conjectured, throw ol-kora into the fire for the same purpose.
If the ol-kora which is thrown into the fire makes it rise in clouds of smoke, resembling the rain-clouds which are desired, then here too the ceremony taken as a whole presents the appearance of a magical rite accompanied by a spoken spell.
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