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The Sateré-Mawé people intentionally use bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior. [4] The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stinger facing inward. When the ants ...
Bullet ant venom Paraponera clavata: Secretion: Poneratoxin: Deliriant: The Satere-Mawe people use bullet ants to get extremely painful stings in their initiation rites twenty times. [1] Colorado River toad bufotoxins: Incilius alvarius: Secretion: 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin (et al.) Psychedelic: Bufo alvarious secretion has gained popularity in ...
The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become warriors. [24] Among the various Austronesian peoples, head-hunting raids were strongly tied to the practice of tattooing. In head-hunting societies, tattoos were records of how many heads the warriors had taken in battle, and was ...
The specific epithet of the ant, clavata, means "club-shaped". [2] The generic name, Paraponera, translates to "near-Ponera". [3] Because of its fearsome reputation, the ant has several Native American, Spanish, and Portuguese local names in different geographical areas; perhaps the best-known of these is the Venezuelan nickname hormiga veinticuatro (the "24 ant" or "24-hour ant"), referring ...
Jewish boy reading a Torah scroll at his Bar Mitzvah, using a Yad Land diving is a rite of passage for boys of the South Pacific island of Pentecost The Mawé people in the Amazon rainforest intentionally use bullet ant stings as a rite of passage into manhood. Karajà statuettes
Paraponera is a genus of ants and the only genus in the subfamily Paraponerinae. [2] The name means "near-Ponera".[3]It consists of two species: the extant Paraponera clavata, also known as a bullet ant, found in the Neotropics, and the very small [4] fossil species Paraponera dieteri known from Dominican amber (Early Miocene; 16-19 million years ago). [5]
Tribal traditions can be harmful to males; for instance, the Satere-Mawe tribe use bullet ants as an initiation rite. Men must wear gloves with hundreds of bullet ants woven in for ten minutes: the ants' stings cause severe pain and paralysis. This experience must be completed twenty times for boys to be considered "warriors". [77]
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