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The Bahuutu and Batutsi believed in a supreme being called Imana or Rurema. Imana was believed to be the creator and giver of all things and was believed to have mediums in the form of Nyabingi or Lyangombe Biheko.
Sacrifices were offered to Nyabingi and Biheko and each family had a shrine, indaro. Indaro was regarded as a very sacred place and the family head would offer sorghum; bread and beer to the gods as circumstances indicated. If the head of the family died, his first –born or first son would take over all the duties of tendering sacrifices to the gods in the family indaro.
How they take traditional burial CustomsThe Bahuutu and Batutsi bury their dead. For any body above eighteen years of age, there would be four days of mourning. During the time of mourning, there would be no digging or any king of manual labour. During the dawn of the fourth day, a special ceremony known as Guta igiti (throwing off the ash) was conducted by a skilled medicine man; and the heir to the deceased, where appropriate, was installed. In case the deceased was an old man with daughters in law, the wife of the eldest son would dress the corpse and she would be given one of the deceased’s gardens for this task. The traditional household utensils included baskets, winnowing trays, grinding, stones, and an assortment of pottery products, calabashes, gourds, mortars, and pestles, imitiba (huge bamboo store baskets inside the house), and wooden stools,spears,knives,bows and arrows. Cattle keepers kept in addition, inkongoro for milking cows and ibisabo (churning gourds) and other milk containers. The inner rooms were kept covered with nicely decorated mats made of swamp grass and embroidered with strings. These mats made favorite sits for women during wedding ceremonies and feasts. One could also find huge mats known as ibirago.used for drying sorghum and other produce. The Batutsi aristocrats were the traditional rulers over their fellow Batutsi, the Bahuutu and the Batwa communities. Leadership was hereditary. The head of the government was the King, Umwami. He was assisted by the land (Umunyabutaka) and cattle or grass (Umunyamukenke) chiefs. The land chief was in turn assisted by subordinate chiefs known as Ibisonga and Abakoresha. The King had a standing army (intore) which consisted of professional Batutsi, Bahuutu and Batwa warriors. There was a clientele system known as ubuhake whereby a Muhutu, upon being given a cow, would render clientage, bordering on servititude, to a Mututsi To cement community relationship; a system of blood brotherhood was practiced. It consisted of sucking one another’s blood from the naval and taking an oath to treat each other as real brothers.Click here to know more about blood brotherhood among batooro The contracting parties would then offer gifts to each other. Thieves and wizards were highly decried. They would be beaten or speared to death whenever they were caught. A woman who poisoned a person to death would also be given poison to drink. Normally, the family heads and elders would settle civil cases. Female fighting was decried but male fighting was treated lightly. The common saying was that “those who fight are the ones who have their stomachs full”(harwana abahagiire.Whenever there was a fight in the family and it ended in a divorce, the case would be taken to elders. If the husband was proved guilty, he would offer a pot of beer and a goat to the woman’s family and redeem his wife. If it was the woman who was found guilty, she was verbally disciplined. No fine was levied on a woman for fear that it might cause trouble in the family.
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