The Initiation of a Boy

The boys were to overcome all that and go into the womb of the earth. The shamad or whoever it was that would be helping you through would not be making it easy. And then there was a release. Once you got into that vast torchlet chamber down there, what was the tribe trying to say to the boy? That is the womb land from which all the animals come. They are mothers sons but they are fathers sons. Don't you wonder what effect this had on a boy? Well you can go through it today actually in cultures that are still having the initiations of young boys. We know what they do in Australia. I want a boy guess to be a little bit