Famous Proverbs
10 Proverbs about Spirits
1. By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.
2. Ask help from the spirits after having used all your strength.
3. A man gets to the land of spirits when he passes seven rivers, seven forests and seven hills.
4. Don't laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes we're all naked for our spirits belong to them.
5. Open your ears to the ancestors and you will understand the language of spirits.
6. Sometimes the spirits speaks for you and sometimes the spirits makes you speak.
7. The drum is the favourite instrument of the spirits.
8. The spirits are the strength and counsel to the living.
9. Like the migrating Maruiwi, who all disappeared into the world of spirits Dead like the moa.
10. Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down.
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