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During the ritual, young men are sent away from the tribe and consume large quantities of live, unmasticated ants under the supervision of an elderly member of the tribe. Ingestion of ants should lead to a prolonged state of unconsciousness where dream helpers appear and serve as allies to the dreamer for the rest of his life. [2]
The way ants crawl In and out of my shadow. IV When my dream was near the moon, The white folds of its gown Filled with yellow light. The soles of its feet Grew red. Its hair filled With certain blue crystallizations From stars, Not far off. V Not all the knives of the lamp-posts, Nor the chisels of the long streets,
Anthropomorphised ants have often been used in fables, children's stories, and religious texts to represent industriousness and cooperative effort. [2] In the Book of Proverbs, ants are held up as a good example for humans for their hard work and cooperation. Aesop did the same in his fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper".
The ant argues that taking liberties without a prior invitation proves nothing. Working for the common good is the true measure of worth, not vainglory, and winter will be the final arbiter. [ 2 ] On account of the ant's boast of its industry and anticipation of winter, it has been argued that their debate is a derivative of the fable of the ...
The species is employed in African traditional medicine to induce vivid dreams, enabling communication with the spirit world. The inner meat of the seed would be either consumed directly, or the meat would be chopped, dried, mixed with other herbs like tobacco and smoked just before sleep to induce the desired dreams. [45] African dream root
It is a spiritual allegory, concerning those who do not acknowledge the spiritual things, and those who spend their time in wasteful, pointless hedonism. The ant, allegorically a spiritual person, needs not fear winter, namely death, because of his work, the grasshoper on the other hand has much to fear from "winter."
Ant ȝef hit þi wille be þou loke þat hit be sene, So muchel y þenke upon þe þat al y waxe grene. Bituene Lyncolne ant Lyndeseye, Norhamptoun ant Lounde, Ne wot y non so fayr a may as y go fore ybounde. Suete lemmon ypreȝe þe þou lovie me a stounde! Y wole mone my song On wham þat hit ys on ylong. When the nightingale sings, The trees ...
Under the cedar tree, they find a great kingdom of ants, which Akinosuke realizes was the kingdom he visited in his dream. Looking for his island home, he finds a separate nest, and investigating further, he finds a small stone that resembles a burial monument. Digging beneath it, he finds a small female ant buried in a clay coffin.