Hot water, light, TV, computer - all these items are familiar to modern man. But there are places on the planet where these things can cause shock and awe like magic. It's about about the settlements of wild tribes that have preserved their way of life and habits since ancient times. And these are not the wild tribes of Africa, who now walk in comfortable clothes and know how to communicate with other peoples. We are talking about Aboriginal settlements that were discovered relatively recently. They do not seek to meet modern people, rather the opposite. If you try to visit them, you may be met with spears or arrows.
The development of digital technology and the development of new territories leads a person to a meeting with unknown inhabitants of our planet. Their habitat is hidden from prying eyes. Settlements can be located in dense forests or on uninhabited islands.
Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands
On the group of islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, to this day there are 5 tribes, the development of which stopped in the Stone Age. They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the natives and try not to interfere in their life and way of life. The total population of all tribes is about 1000 people. The settlers are engaged in hunting, fishing, farming and almost no contact with the outside world. One of the most vicious tribes is the inhabitants of Sentinel Island. The number of all settlers of the tribe does not exceed 250 people. But, despite the small number, these natives are ready to repulse anyone who sets foot on their lands.
Tribes of North Sentinel Island
The inhabitants of Sentinel Island belong to a group of so-called non-contact tribes. They differ high level aggression and unsociableness towards a stranger. Interestingly, the emergence and development of the tribe is still not fully known. Scientists cannot understand how black people could begin to live in such a limited space on an island washed by the ocean. There is an assumption that these lands were inhabited by inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago. People remained within their lands and housing and did not move to other territories. Time passed, and the water separated them from other lands. Since the tribe did not develop in terms of technology, they did not have contacts with the outside world, so any guest for these people is a stranger or enemy. Moreover, communication with civilized people simply contraindicated for the tribe of Sentinel Island. Viruses and bacteria, to which modern man has immunity, can easily kill any member of the tribe. The only positive contact with the settlers of the island was made in the mid-90s of the last century.
Wild tribes in the Amazon forests
Are there wild tribes today that have never been contacted modern people? Yes, there are such tribes, and one of them was recently discovered in the dense forests of the Amazon. This was due to active deforestation. Scientists have long said that these places can be inhabited by wild tribes. This conjecture has been confirmed. The only video filming of the tribe was made from a light aircraft by one of the largest television channels in the United States. The footage shows that the settlers' huts are made in the form of tents covered with leaves. The inhabitants themselves are armed with primitive spears and bows.
Piraha
The Piraha tribe is about 200 people. They live in the Brazilian jungle and differ from other natives in a very poor development of the language and the absence of a number system. In other words, they can't count. They can also be called the most illiterate inhabitants of the planet. Members of the tribe are forbidden to talk about what they did not know on own experience or adopt words from other languages. In the speech of the Piraha there is no designation of animals, fish, plants, color shades and weather. Despite this, the natives are not malicious in relation to others. Moreover, they often act as guides through the thickets of the jungle.
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This tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea. They were discovered only in the mid-90s of the last century. They found a home in the thickets of forests between two mountain ranges. Despite their funny name, the natives cannot be called good-natured. The cult of the warrior is widespread among the settlers. They are so hardy and strong in spirit that they can eat larvae and pasture food for weeks until they find suitable prey on the hunt.
Karavai live mainly on trees. Making their huts from branches and twigs like huts, they protect themselves from evil spirits and witchcraft. Pigs are revered in the tribe. These animals are used as donkeys or horses. They can only be slaughtered and eaten when the pig becomes old and can no longer carry a load or a person.
In addition to the natives living on the islands or in the tropical forests, one can meet people who lead a life according to old customs in our country. So in Siberia for a long time the Lykov family lived. Fleeing from persecution in the 30s of the last century, they went to the remote taiga of Siberia. For 40 years they survived by adapting to the harsh conditions of the forest. During this time, the family managed to almost completely lose the entire crop of plants and recreate it anew from a few surviving seeds. The Old Believers were engaged in hunting and fishing. The Lykovs' clothes were made from the skins of dead animals and coarse self-woven hemp threads.
The family retained the old customs, the chronology and the original Russian language. In 1978, they were accidentally discovered by geologists. The meeting was a fatal discovery for the Old Believers. Contact with civilization led to diseases of individual family members. Two of them died suddenly from kidney problems. Died a little later younger son from pneumonia. This once again proved that the contact of modern man with representatives of more ancient peoples can be deadly for the latter.
Every year there are fewer and fewer places on Earth where primitive tribes can live. There they get food by hunting and fishing, they believe that the gods send rain, they do not know how to write and read. They can die from a common cold or flu. Wild tribes are a godsend for anthropologists and evolutionists. Sometimes the meeting happens by chance, and sometimes scientists are specifically looking for them. According to scientists, currently South America, Africa, Asia, Australia is home to about a hundred wild tribes.
Every year it becomes more and more difficult for these peoples, but they do not give up and do not leave the territories of their ancestors, continuing to live the same way as they lived.
Amondawa Indian Tribe
The Amondawa Indians live in the Amazon jungle. The tribe has no concept of time - the corresponding words (month, year) are simply absent in the language of the Amondawa Indians. The language of the Amondawa Indians can describe events occurring in time, but is powerless to describe time itself as a separate concept. Civilization first came to the Amondava Indians in 1986.
The Amondava people do not mention their ages. It's just that, passing from one period of his life to another or changing his status in the tribe, the Amondawa Indian changes his name. But the most intriguing thing is the absence in the Amondawa language of displaying the passage of time by spatial means. Simply put, speakers of many languages of the world use expressions such as “this event is left behind” or “before this” (precisely in the temporal sense, that is, in the meaning of “before this”). But there are no such constructions in the Amondava language.
Piraha tribe
The Piraha tribe lives in the area of the Maysi River, a tributary of the Amazon. The tribe became known through Christian missionary Daniel Everett, who met with them in 1977. First of all, Everett was struck by the language of the Indians. It had only three vowels and seven consonants, and no numerals.
The past doesn't really matter to them. Piraha do not stockpile: caught fish, hunting prey, or harvested fruits are always eaten immediately. No storage and no plans for the future. The culture of this tribe is essentially limited to the present day and the usefulness that they have. Pirahas are practically unfamiliar with the worries and fears that torment the majority of the population of our planet.
Himba tribe
The Himba tribe lives in Namibia. Himba are engaged in cattle breeding. All the huts where people live are located around the pasture. The beauty of the women of the tribe is determined by the presence a large number jewelry and the amount of clay applied to the skin. The presence of clay on the body performs a hygienic purpose - clay allows the skin not to be exposed to sunburn and the skin gives less water.
Women in the tribe are employed in all household affairs. They take care of livestock, build huts, raise children, and make ornaments. Men in the tribe are given the role of husbands. Polygamy is accepted in the tribe if the husband is able to feed the family. The cost of a wife reaches 45 cows. Fidelity of the wife is not a mandatory thing. A child born from another father will remain in the family.
Huli tribe
The Huli tribe lives in Indonesia and papua new guinea. It is believed that the first Papuans of New Guinea migrated to the island over 45,000 years ago. This indigenous people fight for land, pigs and women. They also put a lot of effort into impressing the enemy. Huli paint their faces with yellow, red and white paint, and are also famous for the tradition of making elegant wigs from their own hair.
Sentinelese tribe
The tribe lives on an island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese have absolutely no contact with other tribes, preferring to enter into intra-tribal marriages and maintain their population in the region of 400 people. Once, National Geographic employees tried to get to know them better, having previously laid out various offerings on the coast. Of all the gifts, the Sentinelese left only red buckets for themselves, everything else was thrown into the sea.
According to scientists, the islanders are the descendants of the first people who left Africa, the period of complete isolation of the Sentinelese can reach 50-60 thousand years, this tribe is stuck in the Stone Age.
The study of the tribe is carried out from the air or from ships, the islanders were left alone. Their piece of land surrounded by water became a kind of reserve, and the Sentinelese were allowed to live by their own laws.
Tribe Karavai
The tribe was discovered in the late 90s of the XX century. The number is estimated at about 3,000 people. Small monkey-like loaves live in huts in trees, otherwise the "sorcerers" will get them. Members of the alien tribe are reluctant to let in and behave aggressively.
Women in the tribe are considered common, but they make love only once a year, at other times women cannot be touched. Only a few of the loaves can write and read. Wild pigs are tamed as pets.
Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands
To this day, 5 tribes live on the islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, the development of which stopped in the Stone Age.
They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the natives and try not to interfere in their life and life.
Andamanese are the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands. Now there are 200-300 people of the Jarawa tribe and about 100 people of the Onge tribe, as well as about 50 large Andamanese. This tribe survived far from civilization, where an untouched corner continues to exist in an amazing way. primeval nature. Studies have shown that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by the direct descendants of primitive people about 70 thousand years ago, who arrived from Africa.
The famous explorer and oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited the Andamans, but he was not allowed to get to the local tribes due to the law protecting this endangered tribe.
The exact number of African peoples is unknown, and ranges from five hundred to seven thousand. This is due to the fuzziness of the separation criteria, under which the inhabitants of the two neighboring villages can refer themselves to different nationalities, without having any special differences. Scientists tend to figure 1-2 thousand to determine ethnic communities.
The main part of the peoples of Africa includes groups consisting of several thousand, and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time - does not exceed 10% of the total population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the wildest tribes. It is to this group that, for example, the Mursi tribe belongs.
Tribal Journeys Ep 05 The Mursi:
Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in the Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually harsh customs. They, by right, can be nominated for the title: the most aggressive ethnic group.
They are prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons (everyone constantly carries Kalashnikov assault rifles, or combat sticks). In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.
Scientists attribute this tribe to the mutated negroid race, With distinctive features in the form of short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and strongly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and pumped up short necks.
The more public, civilized Mursi do not always show all these characteristic attributes, but the exotic look of their lower lip is business card tribe.
The lower lip is cut in childhood, pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter, and on the wedding day a “plate” of baked clay is inserted into it - debi, (up to 30 centimeters !!). If a Mursi girl does not make such a hole in her lip, then a very small ransom will be given for her.
When the plate is pulled out, the lip droops like a long round cord. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, the tongue is cracked to the point of blood.
The second strange and frightening adornment of Mursi women is the monista, which are recruited from human finger phalanges (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in their hands. Each necklace costs its victims five or six tassels, some lovers of “jewelry” monist wrap their necks in several rows, shining greasy and emitting a sweetish rotting smell of melted human fat, which every bone is rubbed daily. The source for the beads never runs out: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has violated the laws for almost every offense.
It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring). Men can afford to be scarred only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers.
Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
In short: women are Death Priestesses, so they daily give their husbands drugs and poisons. Antidotes are distributed by the High Priestess, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is given to such priestesses due to the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying physical body, and freeing the highest spiritual Essence from his man.
The rest of the dead are waiting for the collective eating of the whole tribe. Soft fabrics are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for jewelry-amulets and thrown on swamps to mark dangerous places.
What seems very wild for a European, for Mursi is commonplace and tradition.
Film: Shocking Africa. 18++ Accurate name film - Naked Magic / Magia Nuda (Mondo Magic) 1975.
Movie: In Search of Tribes of Hunters E02 Hunting in the Kalahari. San tribe.
In our age high technology, various gadgets and broadband Internet, there are still people who have not seen all this. Time seems to have stopped for them, they do not really make contact with the outside world, and their way of life has not changed for thousands of years.
In the forgotten and undeveloped corners of our planet, such uncivilized tribes live that you are simply amazed how time has not touched them with its modernizing hand. Living, like their ancestors, among palm trees and eating hunting and grazing, these guys feel great and are not in a hurry to the "concrete jungle" of big cities.
OfficePlankton decided to highlight the wildest tribes of modern times that actually exist.
1 Sentinelese
Having chosen the island of North Sentinel, between India and Thailand, the Sentinelese have occupied almost the entire coast and meet with arrows anyone who tries to establish contact with them. Being engaged in hunting, gathering and catching fish, entering into family marriages, the tribe maintains a number of approximately 300 people.
An attempt to contact these people ended with the shelling of the National Geographic group, however, after they left gifts on the shore, among which red buckets were especially popular. They shot the left pigs from afar and buried them, not even thinking to eat them, everything else was thrown into the ocean in a heap.
An interesting fact is that they predict natural disasters and massively hide deeper into the jungle when storms approach. The tribe survived the 2004 Indian earthquake and the numerous devastating tsunamis.
2 Masai
These born pastoralists are the largest and most warlike tribe in Africa. They live only by cattle breeding, not neglecting the theft of cattle from other, “lower”, as they consider, tribes, because, in their opinion, their supreme god gave them all the animals on the planet. It is in their photographs with drawn earlobes and disks the size of a good tea saucer inserted into the lower lip that you stumble across the Internet.
Maintaining good morale, considering as a man only all those who killed a lion with a spear, the Massai fought back both European colonialists and invaders from other tribes, owning the ancestral territories of the famous Serengeti Valley and the Ngorongoro volcano. However, under the influence of the 20th century, the number of people in the tribe is declining.
Polygamy, which used to be considered honorable, has now become simply necessary, as there are fewer and fewer men. Children have been grazing cattle almost from the age of 3, and the rest of the household is in charge of women, while men doze with a spear in their hand inside the hut in peacetime or run with guttural sounds on military campaigns against neighboring tribes.
3 Nicobar and Andaman tribes
An aggressive company of cannibal tribes lives, you guessed it, by raiding and eating each other. The superiority among all these savages is held by the Korubo tribe. Men, neglecting hunting and gathering, are very skillful in making poisoned darts, catching snakes with their bare hands for this, and stone axes, grinding the edge of the stone for days to such an extent that it becomes a very doable task to cut off their heads.
Constantly fighting among themselves, the tribes, however, do not make raids endlessly, as they understand that the supply of "humans" is very slowly renewable. Some tribes generally set aside only special holidays for this - the holidays of the goddess of Death. Women of the Nicobar and Andaman tribes also do not disdain to eat their children or old people in case of unsuccessful raids on neighboring tribes.
4 Piraha
A rather small tribe also lives in the Brazilian jungle - about two hundred people. They are notable for the most primitive language on the planet and the absence of at least some system of calculus. Holding primacy among the most undeveloped tribes, if it can certainly be called primacy, the feasts have no mythology, history of the creation of the world and gods.
They are forbidden to speak about what they did not know from their own experience, to adopt the words of other people and introduce new designations into their language. There are also no shades of flowers, designations of weather, animals and plants. They live mainly in huts made of branches, refusing to accept as a gift all kinds of objects of civilization. Piraha, however, are quite often called out as guides to the jungle, and, despite their ineptness and underdevelopment, have not yet been seen in aggression.
5 Karavai
The most brutal tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea, between two mountain ranges, they were discovered very late, only in the 90s of the last century. There is a tribe with a funny Russian-sounding name, as if in the Stone Age. Dwellings - children's huts from twigs on trees that we built in childhood - protection from sorcerers, they will find them on the ground.
Stone axes and knives made from animal bones, noses and ears are pierced with the teeth of dead predators. Loaves hold wild pigs in high esteem, which they do not eat, but tame, especially those taken from their mother in young age, and are used as riding ponies. Only when the pig is old and can no longer carry cargo and little ape-like men, which loaves are, can the pig be slaughtered and eaten.
The entire tribe is extremely warlike and hardy, the warrior cult flourishes there, the tribe can sit on larvae and worms for weeks, and despite the fact that all the women of the tribe are “common”, the love festival occurs only once a year, the rest of the time men should not pester to women.
Africa, as always, pleases (everyone decides for himself whether to quote this word) with the most amazing traditions. But what is commonplace for us, for members of the tribes of the “black” continent is a real reason for accomplishing bloody rituals. Today we will "walk" through the virgins.
And Serezha too!
Remember we wrote about boy initiation traditions in Papua New Guinea? Don't think that the girls are treated more condescendingly by the members of the tribe. Although, of course, everything is known in comparison: the rite of defloration of girls takes place here much more humanely. In this "procedure" the participation of the high priest is also integral (it does not bother anyone that he is a walker for both girls and boys?). During his wedding main duty- break through the hymen with a specially prepared ritual wooden knife. After these manipulations, the suffering does not end: future husband a newly-made woman should offer to "test" his bride to other members of the tribe. The marriage ceremony takes place only after all the bullying traditional for the tribe. In marriage, the wife is obliged to remain exclusively faithful, and adultery is punishable death penalty. Similar traditions are followed by the natives of the Zakai tribe on the island of Sumatra. There, too, the bride is first given to be torn apart by all the men of the family, after which a wedding can finally take place. Sometimes near the bed of the unfortunate one can count about thirty men aged from eighty to ten years. And, of course, having become a wife, she is also obliged to remain faithful, otherwise she will pay for treason with her life. Such logical African logic.
King Kong is no longer the same
How do you feel about monkeys? So funny to watch them at the zoo, right? But the virgins of equatorial Africa are not so pleased with these cute animals. Moreover, the mere mention of monkeys can drive women into a state of horror close to insanity. Would you be pleased if your first man was ... a male gorilla? Yes, the girls of the tribes of central Africa are sent to the jungle with a very specific purpose. By the way, it is believed that if she was unable to attract a gorilla, then she is subject to exile and censure - they say, even the monkey did not look in her direction! Naturally, such barbarity ends with the inevitable attack of a wild animal on a would-be virgin. But there are also kind people who, taking pity, decide to "help" the girl - hiding in the wilds of the jungle, they attack her instead of the gorilla. And then they literally try all their dreams, desires and fetishes on it. Is it necessary to say that after the execution not a single living place remains on the body of the poor thing, and she herself does not want to hear anything else about sexual relations during her life? The most surprising thing (although, it would seem, there is nowhere else to be surprised) is that the natives believe that the more mutilations can be counted on the body of now women, the more high position she will rank in the hierarchy of the tribe. A kind of compensation for moral disability.
Fort Knox in African style
But don't think that The best way to avoid all these bullying - to remain an eternal virgin. All in the same Africa, there are tribes that, on the contrary, are fighting in every possible way for the purity and safety of a marriageable girl. True, of course, with the flavor characteristic of this continent. If you do not want relationships before the wedding - please! Just do not be surprised that your vagina will simply be sewn up, and they will do it even in early childhood. And only before the wedding, a specially convened council of tribal elders will “reveal” it for your future husband. That very moment when, before the wedding, no, no, and after the wedding, you somehow hardly want to.
Here we are in Lately some kind of general fashion to scold the place where you were born. And we think that our homeland is great. Especially when dissatisfied elders and fetish gorillas roam ten thousand kilometers away.
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