Vanuatu Land Divers - Naghol / N'Gol
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Vanuatu Land Diving - NGOL
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Before bungee jumping, there was ....
.... this bizarre spectacle, which is called Naghol or N'Gol.
It began on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) many centuries, perhaps millennia ago, when a beaten woman ran away from her husband, Tamale. He found her hiding in a tall tree and called to her that if she came down he might beat her - but only a little. However if he had to get her she would be sorry. She refused. He climbed the tree and as he made his final grab, she leaped. In anguish at her death (or anger that he had missed her) Tamale jumped after her, not realising his wife had tied liana vines around her ankles and survived the fall.
Tamale perished. The ritual evolved over the years, to stripping a tall tree of it's surrounding branches and building a tower of sticks to support the trunk. The platform is made of wood and covered with leaves purposely to protect the platform from the sun drying it out before the ceremony. The leaves are removed by the jumpers before the jump. The liana vines which are tied to the ankel and slightly elastic following the wet season, are shredded and the other end tied to the tower. Men and boys, some as young as seven years, climb the tower and leap from the platforms in a show of strength, and a statement to women that they can never be tricked again....
It is also a fertility rite. Every year in April, when the first yam crop is ready, the islanders on the south of the island start building a huge tower for the land diving. It will take about 5 weeks to build, all materials come from the forest: lianas, branches, trunks. Eventually a wooden tower between 30 to 40 meters high is erected. Each diver must select his own vine. Its size is of utmost importance and if it is only 10 cm too long, the diver will hit the ground and break his neck. As the vines stretch at the end of the dive, the land diver's heads curl under and their shoulders touch the earth, making it fertile for the following year's yam crop.
The ritual is followed with a celebration of Kava, Tuluk, and Laplap. Yum Yum !!
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Djeikup 1 year ago
I'm not really the guy who notices all this stuff, but....
did he have a boner at 0:36 ?
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Poluprostor 1 year ago
Can't begin to imagine what a mind fuck it must be stading on top of that makeshift structure... Make all the fun you want about their boners and asses - but these people got fuckin' BALLS!!!
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comanchio1976 4 weeks ago
A place where balls outweigh brains by a long way.
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thomas arruda 1 month ago
o cara esta de pênis duro?
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epoch1337 1 month ago
A juggalo would jump with the vine tied to his dick.
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LmitatorProduxions 3 months ago
what's a butt-head? no, i confirmed your statement "these people got fuckin' BALLS!!!", and added further commentary. Trolling would be my first question in this reply, not my initial response or second one. Also, there has been more than one fatality. Injuries are also unaccounted for, but again, feel free to stay in your deep end of the pool.
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Poluprostor 3 months ago
There was only ONE fatality in land diving history. It's primarily a show of courage, get it? ;-) But as you wish, stay at the shallow end of your gene pool where it's safe ... just stop trolling on other people's admiration. Or at least offer something more than "it's stupid", you sound like Beavis & Butt-head.:)
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LmitatorProduxions 3 months ago
if jumping head first off a 15 foot structure is having balls and a backbone, no thanks, i'd rather stay in the gene pool, but feel free at any time to display how ballsy you are.
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MetraMan09 3 months ago
How it feels to chew 5Gum.
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Nathan Clifford 3 months ago
the men wore penis sheaths that accentuated their penises ... so, I guess he has wood... in a way... a wooden penis sheath.
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