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Story: Further particulars regarding the purification or cleansing (|koa)
Title
Further particulars regarding the purification or cleansing (|koa)
Collection
Summary
A description of further aspects of the purification or cleansing ritual (|koa). The father (of the man who has killed another) blows smoke onto his son's back and chest and then gives him some to smoke. He warns his son not to smoke Indian Hemp until he has been cleansed.
Comments
1) p.9930v: (14 September 1881) the !na'rre or house of the ancestors (the people of 'our father' and 'our mother'), 2) See also The manner in which a man who is being cleansed, is prepared for drinking water and Purification after shooting a person and What the man says while cleansing himself, 3) This story is found in Book XI & XII-11
Contributors
Date
6 September 1881 (started)
Categories
Keywords
purification (further particulars regarding) , purification (a ceremony) , purification (or |koa) , purification (the two-day cleansing period) , purification (and smoking) , purification (the man fears Indian Hemp and other people's tobacco) , purification (the man smokes only his father's tobacco) , purification (the man seeks his slayer, or enemy) , purification (the man waits two days for the country to be safe) , purification (the man must not enter other people's houses) , purification (the man does not leave or go away) , purification (the slayer is not feared) , purification (and the 'operating' of tobacco) , purification (tobacco is smoked and not Indian Hemp) , purification (the preparatory ceremonies) , purification (the cleansing ritual) , purification (a description of the cleansing process) , purification (how the man is 'operated' on with tobacco) , purification (the role of the father/father-in-law) , tobacco (and the purification ritual, or |koa) , tobacco (how the man being cleansed is 'operated' on with it) , tobacco (is blown on the back and chest of the man by his father) , Indian Hemp (is forbidden during purification) , smoking (and purification or |koa) , smoking (of Indian Hemp forbidden during purification) , smoking (of tobacco during purification) , smoking (the man fears Indian Hemp and other people's tobacco) , smoking (the man smokes only his father's tobacco) , tobacco (is smoked during purification and not Indian Hemp) , tobacco (the 'operating' of and purification) , tobacco (the man fears Indian Hemp and other people's tobacco) , tobacco (father of the man who has killed another blows smoke onto his son's back and chest) , tobacco (the man smokes only his father's tobacco) , men (the role of the father/father-in-law during purification) , men (father of the man who has killed another blows smoke onto his son's back and chest) , death (and further particulars regarding purification) , death (the cleansing of a man who has killed another) , house (and further particulars regarding purification) , house (the man being cleansed must not enter other people's houses) , father-in-law (and further particulars regarding purification) , father-in-law (his role during purification)
Story Pages
9926-9931
