Cutting the dog in mourning

last edited Dec. 19, 2023, 10:04 a.m. by Steve

3-11 Mourning & Adjustment to Death

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I noticed Nambi's dog had a massive gash on it's face. I asked about it, he was cut during mourning for Nambi

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Ulumo - we cut the dog mourning Nambi
last edited Dec. 19, 2023, 10:04 a.m. by Steve

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(my big brother Nambi died, he died and the kids Iben, Mulil etc. Iben and Domol are upset that their uncle died, Olunann is upset and so they wreck the dog, pig, chickens all the things. It's like if dad was here they wouldn't do that, because he died they're doing it. So some meat has gone bad, the roots of food, the house they've wrecked it. We black people don't know our grandparents were down there, then our parents and I've gotten it. You have good behaviour, you got good behaviour from your big men. I got the bad behaviour, and I just do it nating. I go crazy and mistreat the animals and the food, I am a bad man. So they are mourning loudly? Our bad thinking is there, my big brother is bad, we cut the dog, we cut the roots of the food, we shot the pig, we hit people, we follow them. We haven't got rid of our grandfathers behaviour we hold it all Is the dog going to die? He'll be fine, he's fat. He's eating. The pig was shot and we ate it, we did a wanbel. We did it for the visitors who will eat a piece and then go home. We ate part yesterday and we will eat part today, we're doing wanbel. We're preparing it for the person that died we'll see the wrong and the root of the hevi will come down. We hear it for them and they mourn, we give them wanbel. So people are morning and they do bad things? We to from our mother we said. Me and Nambi, we are here everyone come. They came, but they have bad heart and go up to the food, they eat a meat and say their thoughts, we will eat a meat. If there is thinking we will do the meat. We prepared the food for them and they will scatter, they will go but we, you and I will stay. We do this work, we wanbel a brother. We got 2 meats. So it's ok to hit the house and the animals. Is it ok to hit people? - question ignored- we do the wanbel)

Iben - mourning and breaking things
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(They leave Olunann's house alone, they just break inda's house. They cut esee, omu, food. They're mourning. Some people just cry, others break stuff? Yeah some break things, some like women just cry. So it's just men who break things? Yes, they break things. I saw a woman chop the doorway with her machete Yes women cut the doorway. Do you cut people? No we don't cut people. So we don't need to be afraid when we see people do that? no Why were Tolookum afraid? Ingis were breaking the house, and they were just afraid and left.)

Semik - breaking things in mourning
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(there was some talk that this stuff should be done, so they are doing that. Nambi told people to do this before he died. Did they do this for Sigangule? No, they're just following Nambi's talk here. Is there other talk like this, or was it just Nambi? Most don't but, one one do say you should break stuff, kill the pig and wreck the garden. So we follow this talk. So they don't hit people or break Olunann's house? No, they're just following the thinking)