Jumping into the ground on the island of Vanuatu (16 photos + video) Bashny.Net

According to the legend, the story jumps from the vines on the island of Pentecost began with primitive domestic violence. Long ago, a woman fled from her husband, who used it Tapping. Fleeing from the embittered spouse, she climbed to the top of the tree and hid there. In the end, her husband found her and demanded that she went down to the ground. The woman refused, and then the man reached for her. He could just reach out and grab it, but the brave islander jumped down from a great height. Whether her husband fell into despair because of the death of his life partner, or just mad with anger, but he threw himself from a tree behind his wife and crashed. A woman survived ... She's ahead of time tied to the ankles flexible creeper that stopped her fall to the ground.



Truth or fiction, but the ritual nagol (or n'gol) there for many centuries. The tree height of 25-30 meters chopped off the branches, and set on top of a wooden platform. Adult men and boys climb this building and tied to the feet of flexible vines, which were filled with water after the rainy season. Each diver chooses a vine, carefully calculating its length. Still would! An error of only a few centimeters can be fatal. Then participants of the ceremony pronounced a short speech, addressing his compatriots, are repelled from the platform and soar for a moment in the air and flying down rapidly.
At the lowest point of the jump man bends his head to his chest and shoulders touch the ground easily. This ceremony is inextricably linked with the cult of fertility. In contact with the ground as the man to impregnate her, asking the gods for mercy and a good harvest.