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Title:The worship of the Kholamang
kholamang_wal
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:It is a worship of the Kholamang. Kholamang is taken as the hunter god. It is worshipped outside the house.
It is the worship of Kholamang. Kholamang is also important deity. It is believed as the hunter god. It is worshipped outside the house and just after Rajdeu. IAn knowledgeable elder chants the mundum language when the kholamang is worshipped. In this worship, Sarjal is a priest and elder called Bal Bahadur chants the mundhum.
This is a chant in the ritual language used by Chintang ritual experts. It is characterized by binomials which are different from ordinary language nouns.
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
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3011-0
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

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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


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