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c. 1999 Peatrik reads Mbwaa as a charter of initiation contested 1 cit. Anne-Marie Peatrik argues the Mbwaa story is not a record of migration but a work of political philosophy that encodes the logic of initiation and generational succession. She reads the impossible tasks as a world turned backward toward primordial indistinction, Aita's lengthwise cutting as a figure of circumcision that establishes patrilineal dominance, and the parting of the waters as the release of suspended time so that ages and colours can separate again. On this reading the myth restates the central Meru problem: each generation must reopen the passage and rebuild the social order. culture / religion / society ●●●