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Title:Worshipping kholamang as part of the Nuwagi ritual
kholamang
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Martin Gaenszle
Ichchha Purna
Contributor (consultant):Dewal
Contributor (speaker):Dambar
Padam Bahadur
Rai Bahadur
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-10-22
Description:This session records a worship named Kholamang, one of the parts of the ancestral worshipping ceremony among Chintang Rai called Nuwagi.
This ritual is a part of the Nuwagi cycle, the first fruits offering in autumn. The ancestral offering performed for the spirit called Kholamang who is worshipped outside the house with chanting in the ritual language of the mundhum by wattong, a village elder.
While worshipping the kholamang wattong, a village elder, chants the mundhum in Chintang ritual language, and while talking to each other they use both languages namely Chintang and Nepali.
The main performer is DBR, while PBR and RBR assist as wattong, i.e. other village elders from the same Lineage or neighbourhood.
He is a Chintang elder from the Khɨkkhang clan. His father was a naŋsuba (priest). He himself was a vice-chairman of the village district (at the time called Panchayat).
Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography
He is elder son of Dambar Bahadur Rai. He helped with the interpretation of the ritual.
He works as research assistant for the ethnographic documentation of Chintang speech traditions.
He is a neighbour of Dambar Bahadur Rai.
He belongs to Khukkhang clan and same as Dambar Bahadur Rai and he isone of the neighbours
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-toolbox-text
MiniDV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3005-4
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Ritual texts; Religious texts
Invocation
Worshipping of Kholamang, a ritual ceremony
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):nep
ctn
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Dambar (speaker); Martin Gaenszle; Dewal (consultant); Ichchha Purna; Padam Bahadur (speaker); Rai Bahadur (speaker). 2004-10-22. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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