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Masungiro
Masungiro (The Binding Ceremony)
Pfupiso
Mutambo unoitwa pamusuo pemba yavabereki apo mwenga achangosvika achisungirwa mumba mutsva wake nechipiro chembudzi.
Nyaya yakazara
Masungiro mutambo unoitwa musi wokutanga mudzimai amboswera kumurume, apo vaanoroorerwa vanouya nembudzi vagoisungirira musikana uyu, voisa muputi pamusuo pemba yavabereki. Vabereki pavanobuda mumba, murume nomudzimai wake vanosvetuka muputi uyu vopinda mumba, ivo vabereki vodzokera mukati asi pasina kukwazisana pakarepo. Mukuwasha anouraya mbudzi iya, mbuya wemudzimai obika nyama shoma yakasangana nomushonga inodyiwa nemhuri, baba vodya vamwe vopa mudzimai wake zvimwe chete. Zvapera, mhuri mbiri dzinozochikwazisana zvinofara, dzodya sadza nenyama yembudzi iyi pamwe chete. Mutambo uyu unoreva kuti wanano yasimbiswa uye mudzimai wava kubatanidzwa zvachose neimba itsva yaari kuenda kuzogara.
In English
Masungiro is a ceremony held on the day the bride first spends time in her husband's home, in which her in-laws bring a goat and place a maize cob at the threshold of her parents' house as part of formally binding her into the marriage. When the parents come out of the house, the husband and wife step over this maize cob together and enter, and the parents return inside without exchanging greetings right away. The son-in-law slaughters the goat, and the bride's grandmother cooks a small portion of the meat mixed with medicine for the family to eat, while the father eats his own portion and shares the rest with his daughter. Once this is done, the two families finally greet one another warmly and share a meal of sadza and the goat's meat together. The ceremony marks the point at which the marriage is considered secured, and the bride is now fully bound to the new home she is joining.