"If you wouldn't eat a goat's heart for the person you love, do you really love them?"
More Love to Give
The joining ceremony of the
Orth is a long ritual but culminates in the couple each taking a bite of a uncooked goat's heart. Since love comes from the heart, consuming the heart of the goat gives the couple more love to share with each other and with their children. There are variations in who takes the first bite of the heart throughout the different groups of the
Orth. Sometimes the man takes the first bite and hands the heart to the woman as an invitation into his family and a offer of love in exchange for the items the bride has gifted to his family. In other groups the woman takes the first bite and passes it to the man as the final part of the bridal gift. In others they take the bite together as a first step into their joined lives and also always gets a huge response from the crowd.
Immediately before this part of the ceremony the bride reveals her face to the man for the first time since the ceremony began almost seven cycles prior. They both give speeches to the crowd, their parents do the same, and then a special individual - usually a
windspeaker - gives a final speech and hands the couple the raw heart. After they eat the heart the ceremony is technically over but the party usually goes on for at least another cycle.
"I almost covered my new husband in chewed goat heart."
"The feeling of my teeth breaking through the flesh of that raw lump of meat was the worst sensation I can remember."
"I wouldn't want my child to have to do that but if I don't I will never hear the end of it from my parents."
"Don't remind me."— Anonymous responses about eating the goat's heart
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