PIGIPEDIA
In the Kaulong section of Papua New Guinea lives a tribe that is a pig culture: they believe pigs and humans share a single continuum of existence. Pigs are an important symbol of political and social power. At birth, powdered lime is blown into the piglet's nostrils to make it forget its pig mother and help it to bond with its human one. Pigs share their owner's cooked food, are ritually named and baptised, and the women chew up tubers to feed the weak piglets.
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