Dark Africa

Before technology became commonplace and electric powered blender, grinders and pounders the order of the day, the majority of African tribes had devised an ingenious way to blend and grind their various local staples. In came the mortal, a wooden cylindrical hewed-out timber . Africa, both the tropical rainforest and its many Savannahs, boast an abundance of trees , Iroko,Obeche,Mahogany e.t.c. These gigantic trees are usually the building block of a good mortar. Local carvers will purchase long and thick trunks of desired wood and then carve a cylindrical hole in it. It is then fired in a clay oven to dry the wood. The end result is a tall wooden bowl strong enough to withstand the pounding of the pestle and last some years.  The mortal, when not in use, is customarily placed face down, exposing a flat base which gives it an appearance of a stool. The temptation to sit on it when place like is always high and elderly women in the villages discourages the ...

                        Sacred Python of the East A Rock Python                                                                      @sharonmccutcheon Wild animals especially the reptilian kind are always avoided by humans. Crocodiles, turtles,lizards and skinks are just some of them. The snake however is another of the repilian group generally avioded by man. The good book blames it for man travails and it is not helped by its anatomy, lack  of visible arms and legs and offcourse it’s beady cold looks. That it is cold to touch makes it all the more distatedul to touch and feel. The Python one of the kind of snakes with no poison but packing some serious muscle is found on the African,Asia, Australia and the South African Continent. Some ...