Mewahang Rai

 

Mewaha n Rai of East Nepal

[N. = Nepali; M* = Mewaha n ]

pp. 38-38 origins of evil spirits

 

p. 52 the divine ancestors

 

p. 65 initiation into shamanhood by ban jh a ~kri (initiating deity)

 

p. 66 subcategories of makpa (shaman)

 

p. 67 ritual assistants

 

pp. 75-76 dream by a n a gire

 

pp. 77-79 dream journey to the sky, by a bha:gimi

 

myth of the origin of humanity



 M&LB = http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/mlb/mlb04.htm

 

pp. 130-136 souls

 

p. 133 "The Chicken ... is senior to man and has "brought" him up from the nplains."

pp. 268-291 1st journey to the sky [continuous #ing of verses of the 2 journeys + epilogue]

 

pp. 292-302 2nd journey to the sky

 

pp. 302-304 epilogue : addressing the bur.heni-s

 

PERFORMANZEN, Band 4 = Martin Gaenszle : Ancestral Voices. Lit Verlag, Mu:nster, 2002.