Roberta Writes – Thursday Doors and W3 Prompt #72 #NcomeMuseum #SAhistory #poetry

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A visit to the Ncome Museum

The Ncome Museum offers the Zulu perspective of the Battle of Blood River. The museum is shaped like the traditional buffalo horn attack strategy developed by King Shaka.

The Battle of Blood River is so called because the water of the river turned red with the blood of dead men.

You can spend the night at the Ncome Museum in a traditional beehive shaped hut. They are modernised and have bathroom facilities.

Zulu hut hotel room with a slatted door
This picture of the entrance is from the Museum website here: http://www.dac.gov.za/content/ncome-museum
Picture of a woman in traditional Zulu attire
Zulu man in traditional battle gear

W3 Prompt #72

Teach your children

Designations

And positions

Belong to institutions

Not to people

The learned

The devoted

The determined

The ambitious

The greedy

All are vessels

To which titles

Temporarily attach

For a short period

Until the bearer

Resigns

Retires, or

Dies

Then

It moves on

To the next

Recipient

Teach your children

To respect positions

Accept them

For their assigned role

In society

But

Make sure they know

It is not about

The individual

You can join in W3 Prompt #72 here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/09/13/w3-prompt-72-weave-written-weekly/

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    1. Hi Dave, fortunately for me, who wants to write about this, the two sets of information don’t diverge a great deal. I learned a few new things at the Ncome Museum about the Zulu perspective which is helpful and will make my stories more well rounded.

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  15. That museum seems interesting and important. The beehive hut looks so cool.
    Titles and positions are definitely not as important as what people do. It’s interesting to see where The Thinker prompt has taken people!

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      1. I thought the photo was a fun play on language. Whatever it means doesn’t matter because there’s a totally unrelated short story somewhere about the person who ran out of room for “entrance”. History is written by the winners and only time seems to open up the possibility of the losers version coming out. Unfortunately often what is left, like the American Indian, are the remnants of once beautiful cultures with their histories broken and vague. Thanks for the great visual and the museum.

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