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Ghdisiye
Jackal: 'dog of the bush'; see Chapter 3.22 for classificatory details.
Ghramba
A big flute
Ghuvare
Charcoal; charcoal also played a strong ritual role (Chapter 3.23).
Ghuze
Guinea-corn beer (see Chapter 3.16 about its cosmological origin);
ghuze played a key role in libation over the three ancestor stones (kwir
thala) of a house shrine and was the most important ritual drink shared
among the congregation of extended family.
Ghwa'a
Oldest settlement unit of Dghweɗe; see Chapter 3.3 about the role of
'Johode' as early arrival zone from Tur, also consult Chapter 3.4 where
we present Thakara as the common ancestor of Ghwa'a as part of our
reconstruction of a Dghweɗe lineage tree (Figure 12).
Ghwala
Twins (Chapter 3.19); like Ghamba, Ghwala did not fall victim to
infanticide if born as a unlucky eighth-born child (see Chapter 3.18 for
more details).
Ghwe
Goat; the he-goat was the most common sacrificial animal slaughtered
(har) in Dghweɗe calendrical ritual culture; during times of
environmental crisis only one elder slaughtered a he-goat on behalf of
the rest of his extended family or even lineage group (Chapter 3.8).
Gjuwa
Goatskin for older women, known as 'old skins' (see photograph in
Plate 51a). The ngwa kwalanglanga wore several of them turned inside
out packed around their hips while dancing back uphill to complete the
second stage of dzum zugune (Chapter 3.14).
Godaliy
Subregional Mafa ethnonym for the Dghweɗe; consult Chapter 3.3
about the meaning of Godaliy as a synonym for Cissus quadrangularis;
also consult Chapter 3.23 about the ritual density of Cissus
quadrangularis.
Gudahiya
Storage facility for guinea corn only (hiya = guinea corn) [It might not
have been guda hiya but ghuda hiya (ghuda = cutting)]; see interview
with Zakariya Kwire about thagla (harvest festival) in Chapter 3.13.
Gude
Loft; adobe dome on top of the lower and the upper room of a house;
see photo of upper room loft opening in Figure 34d (Chapter 3.11); the
ritual role of the first wife's gude tighe is discussed in Chapter 3.12.
Gude daghara
Upper loft (belonged to the upper room of the husband); see Plate 34d
in Chapter 3.11 for illustration.
Gude tighe
Lower loft (belonged to the lower room of the first wife); see Plate 43a
and Chapter 3.12 for details about its potential ritual role.
Gudule
Clan group in Dghweɗe; the Gudule started the bull festival in
Dghweɗe (Chapter 3.13).
Gudulyewe
Dghweɗe word for Gudur; Gudulyewe literally means: 'water of Gudul'
and was visible from Gudule as being situated at the eastern fringes of
the Mandara Mountains; see map in Figure 21b (Chapter 3.13).
Gudur
Small ritual chieftaincy in Mofu-Gudur area facing the Diamaré plain
on the northeastern fringes of the Mandara Mountains (see also
Gudulyewe); see Figure 21b for regional view of travelling bull
festival (Chapter 3.13).
Gwagha
Patrilineal exogamy (the opposite is mbthawa); exogamous lineage
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