SD1-342
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2023-11-12
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Genre: adat. Title: Kena morene. Pitu Sopune recorded bapak lakimosa (priest-leader) Sundu, in his home in Ko'a, 12 Nov 2023. Sundu talks about local beliefs concerning animals, how the ancestors use them to communicate messages to the people. Sundu talks about boimesi cricket, heko kingfisher, sololika brown-tailed fanbird, nggole kéli pyton. The cricket comes to cry in the house by the hulu pitu house altar because is it hungry and thirsty, but actually it is the ancestors who require ceremonial rice, and perhaps they feel neglected. So, you put rice by the hulu pitu and utter bhulu wa'o prayer, mutually supporting, then it goes away. The kingfisher brigs notice of disease when it comes to the village, also of relatives' disease in far lands. Outside the village the sound is a notice of that evil people is approaching or about to decieve you, and there is a bhulu wa'o prayer for that too. The seasnake bha'i brings similar messages at sea. When seen at the surface in front of the boat, the ancestors inform that the situation is bad in the village, that people are ill and in hardship. When pytons are often seen near the village or even inside, it is a sign that the volcano is heating up and might erupt (traditional, indigenous ecological knowledge, reading the nature). The recording and the annotation work was supported by a Firebird Foundation Supplemental Research Grant for the Documentation of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Mboe Erixon aided with the transcription and translation (edited by SD).
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sara Lu'a
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Palu'e, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. Recording made in kampong/domain Ko'a.
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