Word: warriorism
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...said for tradition as a means of keeping people together," he says. "In spite of advances in education and technology, there seems a new awareness of the value of preserving ancient customs and cultural values." One custom certain to be preserved: the Oni's annual battle with a warrior impersonating Ogun, the god of iron. By tradition, the Oni always wins, thus proving his power as leader of the Yorubas...
...warrior who sees the cannibalism is shaken so profoundly that he loses all sense of the Tightness of things, and sinks into melancholy. He takes no further part in tribal life, understanding in some half-mystical way that the time of the Washo is finished...
Hunt's newest novel, The Berlin Ending, is about a Willy Brandt-like character-Klaus Werber, West German Foreign Minister and notorious "anti-Communist cold warrior," perhaps to be honored with the Nobel Prize and the secretary-generalship of the United Nations. The gimmick: in truth Werber is a Soviet agent...
...Sioux spiritual leader named Leonard Crow Dog struck up a chant in the Lakota language. As each warrior passed by, he blessed him and painted a slash or a circle of red powder under the left eye. Each warrior then stepped into a white tepee, making a holy sign over the bleached skull of a buffalo head...
...this entailed a perfect honing of the will. A man of knowledge, Don Juan insisted, could only develop by first becoming a "warrior"?not literally a professional soldier, but a man wholly at one with his environment, agile, unencumbered by sentiment or "personal history " The warrior knows that each act may be his last. He is alone. Death is the root of his life, and in its constant presence he always performs impeccably " This existential stoicism is a key idea in the books. The warrior's aim in becoming a "man of knowledge and thus gaining membership...