Azaghvana E-Book 2003 - Flipbook - Page 189
Balngada is the son of their daughter [Hembe’s daughter] Bughwithe. When Mughuze married
Bughwithe he was given a cow, goats, sheep and different kinds of farm products. Therefore he
said to Hembe: 'I cannot give you these things in payment of your daughter [meaning dowry] but
the only thing I want to give you, let this, my son, Gathaghure [Balgalda], be my dowry'. This is
why Hembe and Gathaghure are together today.
They came into relation to Mughuze after Gudule took Mughuze, turned him upside down, and
planted him forcefully into the ground, right next to where he had cut his grasses for his animals.
Just like the Traditionalist plant a stick and put vavanza [Cissus quadrangularis] on it to prevent
their grass from being taken by someone. Hembe came along and saw somebody stuck upside
down in the ground and said: 'How can somebody plant a human being like this?' He pulled
Mughuze out of the ground and washed his face and told him to go home. From then on Mughuze
started secretly cutting grasses for Hembe and fed Hembe’s animals. Hembe asked his children:
'Who is bringing these grasses for our animals?' They answered him about that boy and admitted
he also fed them. They said that he only brought the grass and food but wouldn't eat himself.
Now Hembe hid. When Mughuze came along carrying grass, Hembe got hold of him but
Mughuze started crying so Hembe comforted him and invited Mughuze to stay with him and his
daughters. Hembe had nine daughters by then. In the course of Mughuze staying with Hembe,
Mughuze impregnated one of Hembe’s daughters, which was Bughwithe. After Mughuze realised
what had happened he was hiding in the bush. Hembe was wondering where he had gone and went
out to find Mughuze but was not successful.
One night Mughuze killed a big wild animal [presumably a buffalo]. He cut one of the legs and
put it at Hembe's doorstep. Parts of the back, which included the loin, he put on the grinding stone
in the kitchen of Bughwithe’s mother. When the mother got up early morning, she discovered big
meat. She made that guttural sound and Hembe came out and clashed on his doorstep into the big
meat too [a leg piece]. He was surprised. He gathered people and told them what had happened.
They all continued to search for Mughuze. Dogs followed Mughuze’s trace and found him where
he was grilling meat over a fire. Hembe confronted Mughuze but invited him back home and then
offered him farmland and asked him to marry his daughter. He also gave him cows, goats and all
the other things. This is how Mughuze and Hembe developed their relationship.
Gudule had originally planted Mughuze next to his grass like a stick because Gudule was so much
stronger than Mughuze [presumably implies that Gudule was still superior because he was more
numerous]. After Mughuze had married Hembe’s daughter, Gudule went to Ghwa’a to attend a
funeral. Because Mughuze was still afraid of them his wife had to cook a meal and gave it to the
Gudule people on their way home. After they had eaten the food they said: 'What is there in that
house?' [They knew it was Mughuze’s house.] Some went to check. They discovered a big bull.
They forgot about it for the time being and went home and started preparing beer for the bull
festival. When the day of the bull festival came they went to Mughuze’s house and took his bull
away. They went and slaughtered Mughuze’s bull. They cut small pieces of every part of the bull
and gave them to Mughuze.
Mughuze refused to eat the meat but kept it instead as it was and as a result, the meat started to
develop maggots. After the maggots had fully developed he took the maggots and the meat, fried
it, and ate it together with his seven sons. Now all of Mughuze’s sons got married and all of them
had twins continuously.
Now the children of Mughuze tried to revenge for what Gudule had done to their father but they
could not because Gudule outnumbered them. When they had grown to fifty they tried to revenge
but they could not succeed. They tried again and again and even when they developed the number
of ninety, they still were not strong enough to take revenge.
That changed when they got strong enough and shot three Gudule men during warfare and these
three men died on the spot. The following day the same thing happened again. On the third day,
they killed five on the spot. On the fourth day, the Gudule put their shields in line as if they were
behind but left to get ready to leave for Gudulyewe.
When the Mughuze-Ruwa people [most likely the Vaghagaya of Gharaza] came, they started
fighting these shields and discovered that there was nobody behind. They asked themselves where
the Gudule had gone and called upon them. The Gudule answered that they could not withstand
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