Roberto Pazzi
The Ceremony
Maze Hamer tribesmen, painting themselves for the bull jumping ceremony (Ethiopia).
For Hamer people, the bull jumping ceremony is the rite of passage from the adolescence to the adulthood. During the bull jumping ceremony the young men must run four times across the backs of bulls without fall down, to be considered as adults by their tribe.
"Maze" is the name given to the whipper running the bull jumping.
The maze have the role of whipping the women relatives or friends of the bull jumper, who are offering to be whipped to demonstrate their affection to the bull jumper.
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The Ceremony
Maze Hamer tribesmen, painting themselves for the bull jumping ceremony (Ethiopia).
For Hamer people, the bull jumping ceremony is the rite of passage from the adolescence to the adulthood. During the bull jumping ceremony the young men must run four times across the backs of bulls without fall down, to be considered as adults by their tribe.
"Maze" is the name given to the whipper running the bull jumping.
The maze have the role of whipping the women relatives or friends of the bull jumper, who are offering to be whipped to demonstrate their affection to the bull jumper.
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