ABSTRACT
The vitality of traditional Karamojong religion continues, not so much the legitimation of a certain social structure as the heart of a culture, living by the faith of its people. The created order is generally spiritual, not profane, and ceremonial events, all sacrifice, provide an especially dense moment not merely in some esoteric, mystical religion, but in the whole life and ecology of the sacrificing people. The feast is generally a sacrifice of one sort or another, when death is a precondition for a carnivorous meal. The spearer's mother will be given the head, tongue, neck and lungs to boil, even when the spearer is compelled to sacrifice for tying up the rain. While women are excluded from sacrifice and assembly, and so the ultimate politico-religious court of the Karamojong, it would a great mistake to assume that they are voiceless, passive or subordinate in society.
