The odd Indian customs of marriage and divorce are common

Millions of Indians still live in the Amazon River Basin. A considerable number of them still live a primitive tribal life of slash-and-burn cultivation and retain many incredible female customs.

Indians are local residents of the Americas, with a population of more than 40 million, and belong to the American branch of the Mongolian race. Indians have brown skin, straight black hair, eyes ranging from light yellow to dark brown, eyes with inner canthus folds, flat faces, and less body hair. Scholars believe that the ancestors of the Indians migrated to the Americas from Asia through the Bering Strait more than 30,000 years ago, and later distributed throughout the Americas.

Indian women's childhood was as free and happy as boys. After they were weaned, they no longer wanted to stay with their mothers. They climbed tree trunks, chased birds, caught lizards, caught small fish, and even caught snakes with boys. When they grew up a little, they began to explore the surrounding rivers and dense forests. Since childhood, they developed a unique temperament of courage, calm and simplicity.

Since the traditional division of labor among the Indians is that men hunt and women cultivate fields and do housework, girls no longer play with boys when they are seven or eight years old and begin to differ from boys in labor. Boys often go hunting with their fathers and gradually master the means and skills to make an independent living. Girls begin to go down the fields with their mothers and learn to do housework from their mothers: such as collecting firewood, carrying water, cooking rice, roasting meat, smoking fish, etc.

From a little girl to a recognized big girl, you need to undergo a series of practical tests. Some tribes even have such a rule in vogue. When young girls have their first period of menstruation, they must avoid in a first period hut specially prepared for the girls and live alone there for fifteen days. During this period, they are not allowed to contact or speak with others, and their diet is subject to inevitable restrictions. After this so-called coming-of-age ceremony, she is considered a big girl. Among most primitive tribes in the Amazon River Basin, World Customs Network generally believes that twelve or thirteen years old is the best young age for a girl to marry, and unmarried girls are generally no longer than thirteen or fourteen years old.

Perhaps due to the hot climate in the Amazon or the lack of cotton cloth, Indians in almost all tribes are naked. Men usually only tie a thin belt around their waist and tie a fig leaf in front of the thin belt. Women often wear only a short cloth skirt or small apron at the waist, or even naked. Despite this, the girls still especially like to dress up. In order to be able to wear beautiful earrings, they have been willing to endure the pain of piercing their ears since childhood.

Generally speaking, girls who like decoration wear exquisite and beautiful ornaments on their ears, necks and wrists. In a tribe called Yanomami, unmarried girls often use red and black dyes collected from trees to paint distinctive patterns on their faces and bodies, just like jaguars with beautiful markings on their bodies. They also have thin wooden sticks like toothpicks on their cheeks and chins. In addition to wearing beautiful earrings, they also have a few fragrant wildflowers on their ears. They all think that this kind of makeup is the most fashionable and beautiful.

In some tribes, a woman's nose is also used as an important indicator of beauty and ugliness. If the girl has a small and slightly tilted nose, it is the most likable and will surely win the admiration of many young men. On the contrary, if a girl has a tall nose, even she will feel shy when she leaves her home.

In many Indian tribes, relationships between men and women are mostly very free. Throughout the tribe, it is difficult to find women or men who have been married only once. As long as a man and woman spend one night together, the marriage between the man and the woman is established. Of course, it is also very easy for couples to divorce. As long as they feel that each other hates each other and no longer have a crush on each other, they can part ways and find a new lover.

In the Yanomami tribe, it was considered a sin to have a woman. Once a husband learns that his wife is pregnant, he will immediately stay away and will never be allowed to imply any form of intimacy with her. Pregnant women can no longer decorate themselves and must remove all jewelry such as earrings and necklaces. In addition, pregnant women are not allowed to eat big fish, and snooping men are not allowed to take boats down the river to fish. Because in local legends, if a pregnant woman eats a big fish, she will offend the god of the big fish, and the god will snatch the baby and kill the mother. When pregnant women secretly spy on men taking boats down the river to fish, they will offend the water god, and the water god will overturn the boat.

When a woman is in labor, she must stay away from the tribe and go to the forest to find an open space. Once the baby is born, the mother uses a piece of wood to cut the umbilical cord and then rinses it with clean water. They do not need the help of midwives and have no custom of confinement. After sorting out, the mother immediately took the baby Gao Happy back to the tribe and proudly told her husband and family the process of giving birth. The entire tribe will gather together to add a new member and hold a grand celebration.