oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D271-4
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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D271-4 |
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| Title: | purification of the mourners | |
| malami_01 | ||
| Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
| Contributor: | Arjun Rai | |
| Contributor (speaker): | Guman Sign Rai | |
| Coverage: | Nepal | |
| Date: | 2006-05-15 | |
| Description: | This session is the third part of the final death ritual performance. It is a purification ritual and achieves the separation of the deceased's soul and mourner's soul. It must be performed at the courtyard of the dead person’s home in order to take the soul of the mourners away from the deceased and eventually raise the head-soul of mourners. | |
| 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. | ||
| the Dowʌ (priest) sprinkles the solonwʌ, a mix of holy millet beer, water in the ritual calabash and covers it by a leaf of wahi at the altar, he recites, chants the mundum text, trembles, consoles, and speaks to the deceased's soul. He separates the deceased’s soul and the mourner’s soul, and purifies the mourners at the courtyard of the deceased's home | ||
| Puma is the language which is used throughout this session. | ||
| GSR is the resident of Diplung VDC, Nigalbas. He is a shaman and also a ritual performer in Puma community. His clan is Limmachit. Mr. Dachhuman Rai is the Kotowala. Mr. Kumar Rai is a son of Vale, i.e. the dead person. Mr. Ambar Bahadur Rai is a younger brother of Vale and the household head in the ritual context. There are also neighbours present as other mourners. | ||
| GSR is a shaman and also a good ritual performer in his settlement area. His clan is Puma Limmachit. | ||
| He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team. | ||
| Format: | text/x-shoebox-text | |
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| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D271-4 | |
| CPDP | ||
| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
| University of Leipzig | ||
| Subject: | Ritual/religious texts | |
| Shamanic invocation | ||
| Dead soul | ||
| Puma language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | pum | |
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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_00-0000-0000-0017-D271-4 | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-07-18 | |
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| Citation: | Guman Sign Rai (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2006-05-15. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_pum | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Nepal | |
| Area: | Asia | |