agwei

(plural agwean) (noun F) a new crop of millet. aikony agwei: to taste first millet meal. koom emuron kobu aitokony itunga agwei: call the heathen priest to bless the first millet meal. cp. angorot. (The heathen ceremony is as follows: the priest - emuron - takes the first morsel, after which the others do the same (take a morsel); the ladle with which the meal was stirred is placed above the doorway, for the children take the new meal next morning. Before the priest and the people partake of the food, he makes the sign of the cross on himself, smearing first himself and the people with the food and then throwing it in lumps to the four winds ? north, east, south, and west).