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Traditional Maasai Rain-Calling Rituals (Women’s Roles at Rivers and Mountains) Among the Maasai, women play an important spiritual role during times of drought. They perform special traditional ceremonies at river sources and on mountain sites, seeking rain and blessings from Enkai (God/Messiah). 1. At River Sources: Women gather at springs, rivers, or watering points. They sing sacred traditional songs and prayers dedicated to Enkai. Using small calabashes, they sprinkle or scatter milk, symbo

School children enact “Hantsegwashe” – ancient Circassian rain-invoking rituals. School girl Salmeta Gvasheva (Гъошъо Салметэ) learns about the ancient ritual of invoking rain “Hantsegwashe” at her school in Great Kichmay in the Shapsugh Region on the Black Sea coast of Circassia. She is intent on knowing about all its aspects to enact it with her school friends. With the onset of summer, the rituals associated with the Goddess of Rain “Hantsegwashe” would be undertaken in case of droughts. A pr