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Title:Myth of Puma Goddess Dimahongma
dimahongma_01
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):Sajan Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-12-09
Description:This is the origin myth about Dimahongma alias Bal Kanya Devi, which is the supreme goddess of the Puma people. This was recorded at Beltar VDC, Udayapur District.
Bal Kanya Devi or Dimahongma is the supreme goddess for the Puma, and they believe in her strongly. Once upon a time, a young girl's parents left her at home in order to work across the river. The girl started to look for her parents and followed them. When the parents later returned home and their daughter was not there they searched for her. Eventually they found that she had drowned in the river when trying to cross it. The parents were very sad. Later they found that the girl had turned into a goddess and they worshipped her.
Puma language is frequently used in this session. Bantawa and Puma are related in some context, so it is also used the Bantawa language in some situation.
SR is one of the Puma who is also a Puma singer and poet. He has a good knowledge of the Puma culture so the Puma team requested him to tell a story of the Bal kanya.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
He is a student and also a good person to help the Puma team as a consultant. so Puma team took advantage collecting many more datas with him.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
text/x-shoebox-text
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-6F76-B
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Narrative
Myth
Origin of Balkanya
Bantawa language
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):bap
pum
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Arjun Rai; Sajan Rai (speaker). 2004-12-09. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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