SD1-324
SD1-324
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2015-06-12
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Danerek, H. Stefan
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Danerek, H. Stefan
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Genre: Fairy story. Title: Doto no’o Walo (alt. Pu Pu). Kanda Séra (Ko'a) tells a Palu'e fairy story about two brothers who become abducted by a strange old man with a pair of strange ears he uses to capture the children. After they have freed themselves, they journey to the heavens with an areca nut tree. There they meet two sisters and they instantly marry. The sisters only eat raw food (heated in the armpit in other versions), so they go to the fields and make fire there the traditional way (bhojo hapi) with bamboo and coconut husk and cook tubers. One day the Heaven people discover them with fire, and approach it carelessly, clothing and body burned. In another version (Ngei du’a) “the Heaven” is the Earth, or Palu’e Island. The Palu’e conceive of the world as layered, 15 layers with the earth centre or 8 layers. So, the knowledge of fire making came from a lower mirroring layer to our layer. In Kanda’s version, Heaven is not the Earth, it is above and obviously similar, because we are told that Pu Pu invites the people of Ko’a to help clearing his plantation – and he wants to grill two pigs (Doto and Walo) for the occasion. Recorded in the morning 12 June 2015 in Kanda’s home by SD using the AT2020 external mic. With his wife Toji, Wéka and lakimosa Sundu. Kanda told two tales (see Bai Léra) and his wife one (Nusa Tale no’o Mbu Ritu, or Nusa Tale, Mbu Ritu, Mbakorao) on this pleasant occasion.
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Sara Lu'a
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Palu'e, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. Recording made in kampong Ko'a, Ko'a domain.
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