Among the Bahima the ebyevugo recitation is a first-person boast in which a warrior enumerates his own feats of raiding and combat, naming the specific enemies, places, and cattle he seized. Reputation is built by publicly reciting one's deeds in heightened, formulaic language, so that heroic status is a performed and verbal achievement, not merely an enacted one.
Each reciter adopts a sequence of self-conferred praise-names (coined epithets) that encode particular episodes of courage or prowess, so a single compound name stands in for an entire remembered exploit. The recitation strings these epithets together, letting the audience unpack a career from a chain of dense honorific labels.
The recitations treat success in warfare and success in acquiring and herding cattle as a single continuous ideal, since raiding both proves bravery and increases the herd. The genre thus presents the warrior and the herdsman as one role, with the cattle won in battle serving as the material proof of heroism.