“ The complete faith of the Pygmies in the goodness of their forest world is perhaps best of all expressed in one of their great Molimo songs, one of the songs that is sung fully only when someone has died.
At no time do their songs ask for this or that to be done, for the hunt to be made better or for someone’s illness to be cured; it is not necessary. All that is needed is to awaken the forest and everything will come right.

But suppose it does not, suppose that someone dies, then what? Then the men sit around their evening fire...and they sing songs of devotion, songs of praise, to wake up the forest and rejoice it, to make it happy again. Of the disaster that has befallen them they sing, in this one great song, “There is darkness all around us; but if the darkness is, and the darkness is of the forest, then the darkness must be good.”
(Colin Turnbull, in his study of the Pygmies of the Congo)