Imaginary worlds and their idiosyncrasies Not everybody lives the same way and not everybody believes the same things and we call that an imaginary world or a world in which they believe to be true. In “The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees” by David Crandall, he explains that the Himba have a very elaborate imaginary world that consist of things such as of their belief in a God, spirits, ancestors, hearts, and what the world is like. However, not every Himba follows these beliefs in exactly the same way. Just like at BYU where we all share the same imaginary world but we all follow the rules in slightly different ways. One example of the Himba’s imaginary world is their belief in the God Mukuru. They believe that Mukuru determines everything from how fat one woman is to the sex of a baby. He used to be able to come back and forth from heaven to earth on a rope but he got mad and cut the rope that connected the two worlds. Now he watches over the Himba from Heaven. He created everything and is the only one capable of understanding everything. For example, when Katere and Wandisa were arguing on whether someone was using omiti against Katere the prophet said that arguing wasn’t the way to solve the problem and that then needed to use to the power of God to find out the truth. (Crandall 143) So, instead of …show more content…
They do not believe that it can take any other form like round because if the Earth were round we would be constantly walking uphill or downhill. So, the Earth is like a disk with land in the middle and water surrounding the land. Only Mukuru can understand the things that are beyond the water and since no man can make the winds blow or winds form in the sky there is no possible way that humans can fully understand why that happens. They do not understand why Mukuru and the ancestors make some seasons good and some bad but they do perform rain ceremonies so that Mukuru and the ancestors will make it rain. (Crandall