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The secret transmitted to the initiates in the Kloketen
ceremony was the following one: "in the beginnings
men were subordinated women. The important decisions
was made by Women for the best for the group. The men
was entirely subject to her will dedicated to the domestic
workings: they maintained the fire, they roasted the
meat, they took care of the children and they worked
the leather.
They could not demand because of the ritual of the
Hain that was made by women, produced great fear to
them.
Thus they remained long time, without discovering that
the spirits who frightened them during this ritual,
were only the disguised women to maintain their dominion
on them.
They painted themselves and a crust masks were placed
on their heads... Between all them, the moon woman ,
Kra, was most powerful. It was married with Kran, the
sun man hunting of guanacos. Kran and Kra lived with
howenh, but Kran was an astute shaman and discovered
that underneath the great hut there were only women
presuming to be spirits... Then the men undertook against
them. There was a terrible fight. Only some women could
escape. The men, after killing almost all of them ,
restored a new social order: now they are who disguise
themselves to frighten the women, those that pretend
to terrify themselves and to accept the dominion of
the men who claim to be the spirits of the universe."
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