em still continues thereafter- they are banished from the tribe to live in the forest. This leads them to die alone unless another group of Pygmies or a totally different tribe accepts them from exile.
             All cultures tend to have some form of religion, well understood or not. Pygmies too have a religion, one that remains unnamed. They believe that the forest is their god; their feelings are they were the first humans on the earth therefore they are to tend to it. Oudah, their version of our Satan, is whom they believe is responsible for sudden deaths and other tragedies. They have few ceremonies or "holidays" strictly involving religion, but there are two: Molimo Ceremony and the Elima Ceremony. The Molimo Ceremony involves only the men and boys. They sing and dance, and use the Molimo horn to bring luck to the tribe in times of death or other tragedies. The woman and girls, on the other hand, only celebrate the Elima Ceremony. This celebration acknowledges women's many life cycles, such as; birth, puberty, marriage, or death. Death... Not a v
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