“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament.
The bissus of South Sulawesi are considered a link between the earthly and celestial because they are thought to embody both male and female traits.
Every year, the bissu in the Indonesian village of Segeri lead a ritual before the rice planting season. This procession, last November, included a sacred plow.
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