OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED1-9 |
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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. | |
The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch | ||
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 | |
DV | ||
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED1-9 | |
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 | |
OLAC Info |
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Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED1-9 | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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Search Info | ||
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 |