OLAC Record
oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CB7-2

Metadata
Title:The worship of the yupung
wal_yupung01
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Sarjal
Ichchha Purna
Contributor (speaker):Bal Bahadur
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-06-30
Description:The Yupung is a worship of the ancestral deity. It is worshipped once a year. It is a great festival among Chintang. It is also calle ubhauli in Nepali. It is related to planting crops.
It is the worship of Yupung, ubhauli festival among Chintang with chanting the mundum by an knowledgeable elders called Bal Bahadur Rai (BBS).
This is a chant in the ritual language used by Chintang ritual experts. Its characterized by binomials which are different from ordinary language nouns.
Collector (IR) was informed about the ritual and went there and recorded it. The householder called Sarjal (SR) was priest and worshipped it. Bal Bahadur (BBS) was called to perform as a knowledgeable elder so he chanted the mundum for this worship.
He belongs to Sangpang. Sanpang is not the proto-clan of Chintang. Sangpang came to Chintang from Simpani, a village of Khotang, where Sangpang Rai settled originally. In Chintang they came with their mother because mother belonged to the Chintang clan called Dalahang. He works as an knowledgeable elder among Chintang. He performs varieties of worship and chants the mundum.
He is young but performs as a priest because his father has already died. His role in the worship is worshipping the deity according to knowledgeable elder's advice.
Ichchha Purna is the RA for the study of ethnography of Chintang
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-toolbox-text
Mini DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CB7-2
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Ritual texts; Religious texts
Invocation
Unspecified
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):nep
ctn
Type:audio
video

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:  Pre-generated XML file

OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CB7-2
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Bal Bahadur (speaker); Sarjal; Ichchha Purna. 2005-06-30. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


http://www.language-archives.org/item.php/oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CB7-2
Up-to-date as of: Wed Apr 12 3:32:50 EDT 2017