kula

• “On the external level, the Sanskrit term kula refers to caste.”

  The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis)

• “Our lively zaptieh cheered the route with an instructive tale of the siege of a certain kula we passed, by soldiers from Scutari sent to collect cattle-tax.”

  High Albania

• “Yoga is not just a personal thing, or a way to tone up our bodies, de-stress and focus our minds, but a call to unity, to join together with our world community, our kula, and show that we care to help make a difference in a broader sense than only in our own lives and relationships.”

  Sadie Nardini: Your Real Yoga Begins Now: Haiti's Earthquake

• “What likely transpired was a division of the ancient * - kula rites into two ceremonies after contact with an external group that shared its own ideas about male circumcision.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “As late as 1999, when I conducted fieldwork in Tanzania, male elders in various villages remembered * - kula initiations from their childhoods.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “This ceremonial moment was identified by the initiation of groups of boys into a shared age-set, * - kula.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “Nkoya kukûla "to become mature (of male)"; Nyanja, kula, ku - v.i. "grow, grow up, mature"; Zigua kukula "to grow, to scrape (as when shaving).”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “But whether or not that is true, by the time the proto-Ruvu communities emerged in the central-east Tanzania, they and their proto-Wami ancestors already applied the word * - kumbi to their initiation camps, presumably where * - kula rites, whatever they entailed, were held.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “In that era, young boys may have gone through an initial * - kula ceremony wherein they were taught about aspects of their clan culture.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “Note 100: The * - kumbi within the * - kula rite may well have been the shelter made from the fibrous mkumbi tree whose bark pulls back in sheets of * makumbi.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

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