I got some crazy taotaomo'na stories
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That's pure colonially imposed sexism bullshit right there. If anything the women would be favored as healers and stronger as far as spiritual ability, they're the portals that bring life into this world. They literally make all the people. The strongest Suruhana I knew was a
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Woman from Luta. I got sick my first trip there and we rolled up to her house without giving her any prior notice whatsoever. As soon as she saw me she asked me "why were you throwing coconuts" as if she had been there. In fact it was the first thing she said to any of us
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They're not more clairvoyant or special than women. Ask yourself if that information feels right to you. There's layers of stories from our precolonial culture and our post colonial conditioning that created all kinds of gender divides that are no longer relevant in the present
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That's what I was saying! It didn't feel right to me but then again, I was in middle school, and the only people in my family who had ever been touched were my cousin (young boy) and a distant Uncle. So I didn't doubt it at the time, but yeah. It never sat right with me.
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I was told by my suruhånu teacher that they often favor men/boys, but idk if that is true. I wonder if men are more "clairvoyant" to the spirits? Colonization has clouded the knowledge and made me doubt so much.