Who Or What Is The Peace Child To Me?

What concepts of the Sawi culture intrigued/ reviled/ saddened/ angered/ surprised you?

One of the main things that surprised me was how the Sawi took the concept of betrayal and idealized it. Their love it drove them to a point where they couldn't distinguish who the good guy was: Jesus or Judas. Their appraisal of betrayal took me aback a bit because even though the concept of betrayal was not new to me, the thrill or even the sheer amoung of enjoyment shown by the Sawi towards betraying, killing then eating someone was completely strange to me. The surprise here does not lie in the cannibalism, this is their custom and has become traditional after a betrayal, but the thought of actually spending so much time and effort into a relationship just to see it end so drastically was probably the thing that stood out the most.

Another concept that intrigued me was that of the Peace Child. The idea of the Peace Child seems very ingenius to me due to the fact that the Sawi people are a tribal people, yet they invented what is basically a treaty system. One thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Peace Child is a quote "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". This quote traces back to the High Priest Caiaphas, from the Gospel of John, who said “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” So in order to save a whole tribe the Sawi sacrificed an infant, the infant did not choose this life but in the end looking at it through a utilitarian point of view it was probably the best course of action.