Hutchinson, {61} In His Exceedingly
Amusing Description Of A Wedding He Was Once Present At Among These
People, Would Lead One To Think The Period Of Seclusion Of The
Women's Society Was Twelve Months.
The chief god or spirit, O Wassa, resides in the crater of the
highest peak, and by his name
The peak is known to the native.
Another very important spirit, to whom goats and sheep are offered,
is Lobe, resident in a crater lake on the northern slope of the
Cordilleras, and the grass you sometimes see a Bubi wearing is said
to come from this lake and be a ju-ju of Lobe's. Dr. Baumann says
that the lake at Riabba from which the spirit Uapa rises is more
holy, and that he is small, and resides in a chasm in a rock whose
declivity can only be passed by means of bush ropes, and in the wet
season he is not get-at-able at all. He will, if given suitable
offerings, reveal the future to Bubis, but Bubis only. His priest
is the King of all the Bubis, upon whom it is never permitted to a
white man, or a Porto, to gaze. Baumann also gives the residence of
another important spirit as being the grotto at Banni. This is a
sea-cave, only accessible at low water in calm weather. I have
heard many legends of this cave, but have never had an opportunity
of seeing it, or any one who has seen it first hand.
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