Monday, March 2, 2009

Alex's wedding

Today is kind of special because Alex is getting married to his 1st wife Jayden he is allowed up to three wives. I’m not sure how to fell at this point. Jayden and I are good friends but she is neither in our tribe nor a close family member and she is a different race. In our tribe divorce, marring into another tribe or race is all taboo. Something else unique about our tribe is the wedding vowels are signed in blood. After the vowels have been read and signed. The couple must then make it official the wife must first have sex with her husband then each member of the tribe according to rank with brothers next in line then cousins. Traditionally this last well into the next day and most of the time a train is run on the wife to speed the process up. I don’t even get to see Jayden till the 5th day of there marriage. The 2nd day Jayden must have sex with all allies of tribe unlike family members allies are allowed to pick the location and positions also the sex is unsupervised and often includes drugs to help the new wife relax. That night is spent touring the place and familiarizing the wife with all the tribe members’ tasks. The 3rd day is important because that is the day the new wife’s hunting skills are tested, and I don’t mean deer hunting the tribes number one job is to defend it’s borders. We are trained as early as three to hunt people. Our tribe is one of the largest and strongest the land can’t support us all so cannibalism is common… to be continued

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