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ourselves here that the deceased mother also received ritual attention at her grave, while we do
not know whether the grandfather did likewise. In this sense, it was the deceased father and his
first wife who were awarded special ritual attention outside the house, most likely on a personal
piece of land on the hillside nearby. Unfortunately I do not know much about the burial traditions
of the Dghweɗe, but we know that A.B. Mathews (1934) made some notes in this respect.
Table 8: Annotated list of ritual pots found in a traditional Dghweɗe house
dungwe
dung ga baya
jahurimbe
sak batiwe
sakgharhfire
sak sage
sunde
suteke
tughdhe
tughdhe batiw gadada
tughdhe batiw gajije
tughdhe batiw tighe
tughdhe dzum zugune
tughdhe fke
tughdhe ghwala
tughdhe gude
tughdhe kule
tughdhe thala
Small ritual beer pot with small aperture for small children, and a
small ritual cooking pot. Were kept together under parents
granaries when no longer in use
Ritual beer pot for a deceased mother kept in her kitchen
Ritual bowl on decorated stand to consume beer during dzum
zugune and har ghwe. Was kept in the 'stomach' of thala or first
wife's lower gude (gude tighe)
A sak batiw was a ritual cooking pot for a particular room, either
from a transformed ordinary cooking pot or a ritual 'cooking pot
on three legs' = sak sage.
Personal god/spirit pot for fathers and perhaps also children
Ritual cooking pot with three legs
Ritually buried placenta pot
Ritual beer pot with small aperture only used during dzum zugune
(adult initiation)
General term for beer pot with small aperture, mainly for ritual
use in relation to male family members
Pot with small aperture kept in tiny ancestor room for dada
(deceased father)
Pot with small aperture kept in miniature ancestor room for jije
(deceased grandfather)
Small beer pot with small aperture kept in loft (gude) of batiw
tighe (lower room of the first wife)
Ritual pot with small aperture for adult initiation (is the same as
suteke, which was the more common expression)
Big beer pot with small aperture to serve the public
Twin pot with dual apertures for twin boys
Pot with small aperture kept in upper part (gude) of batiw tighe
(presumably the same as tughdhe batiw tighe)
Ritual pot with small aperture used for father’s grave
Two ritual beer pots with small apertures kept in 'stomach' of
thala. One was the personal tughdhe thala for father and owner of
the house while the other was for the deceased paternal
grandfather and was referred to as zal jije.
There are some ritual pots on the list which we have not yet discussed. One of them is tughdhe
gude and another is tughdhe batiw tighe. We can only assume that they were the same, and will
discuss them in the next subsection. The other one is tughdhe dzum zugune, which was certainly
identical with suteke. We have not discussed tughdhe fke either yet, and finally there are the twin
pots (tughdhe gwala). The different types of twin pots and their ritual use will be discussed in
greater detail in the appropriate chapter, and the same applies to suteke, which plays a particular
role in the ftsaha ritual during the adult initiation (dzum zugune). This was also the case for
the ritual bowl on a decorated stand, called jahurimbe, which played a crucial role in the
opening ceremony of dzum zugune. Suteke and jahurimbe are mentioned as opposites, the
former being for a wider public and the latter for a more intimate ritual setting. Tughdhe fke was
used for a yet larger public attendance, presumably for most communal ritual events.
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