Question: What concepts in the Sawi culture intregued / reviled / saddened / angered / surprised you?

“Tuwi Asonai Makaerin!” (31)

This was said to Yae at the moment the creeping menace became vivid to him. This phrase is translated to “We have been fattening you with friendship for the slaughter.”
Many people mistake cannibals to those who depend on human flesh for the satisfaction of their body. However, this is not the case for the Sawi. The Sawi tribes headhunt for the satisfaction of their mentality, not their physical state. As they chew on the flesh of their victim, who was being eaten by whom he trusted to be a true friend, they gain pride in how great his Tuwi Asonai Man was. Tuwi Asonai Man, the concept of fattening a victim with friendship for the slaughter, greatly astonished me. This means, as it is proven in the book, the hero in the Bible, according to the Sawi culture, is Judas, who committed a “real tuwi asonai man.”(151)
A question was raised as I read this scene: if we, the people of the modern society, were not introduced to the Bible, would we also have become like the Sawi tribes? Would we be living without the ultimate peace? The decisive distinction between the Sawi tribes and us is not the development of technology, but the presence of ultimate laws based on morals. We have had the Ten Commandments since Moses and had the ability to restrain ourselves from actualizing unethical practices, such as headhunting. On the other hand, with great grief, the Sawi tribes have never had the chance to accept Christ into their life. Thus, the cannibalism, along with many immoral practices, was executed. Fortunately, Don Richardson came among the Sawi tribes with the words of God, and greatly affected their culture. The words of God completely banished the evil deeply embedded inside one’s culture.