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Jij-ha
Forefathers (jije = grandfather; ha = people); this underpins the general
importance of the patrilineal grandfather (jije) as ancestral key figure.
Johode
Hausa alternative for Ghwa'a or Dghweɗe; was used by colonial
officers; see Chapter 3.3 about 'Johode' as early arrival zone from Tur.
K
Kaɓa
Ritual linked to the first har ghwe (sacrifice for a deceased father) that
a man had to perform in which his senior brother as dada priest had to
come for assistance before he could start dzum zugune (adult
initiation); this would have only been an option if the senior brother
had performed dzum zugune before him (Chapter 3.14).
Kaftrusa
Dghweɗe reference to the British resident of Borno in the 1920s; read
the legendary narrative about the arrest of Hamman Yaji (Chapter 2.2).
Kalbaka
Clouds (mainly a reference to rain clouds); see rainmaker Ndruwa
Dzuguma's oral account in Chapter 3.8 describing his local rainmaker
perspective of ritually interacting with the rainy season.
Kalyagha
Dry season; see Chapter 3.8 about the Dghweɗe seasonal calendar; the
Dghweɗe only counted the rainy season (viye) as the agriculturally
active part of the year while the dry season was dedicated to repair and
maintainance work; in terms of ritual performances the main festive
season started with the harvest of guinea corn (see also Chapter 3.10).
Kambarte
Lineage section; literal meaning: a 'new beginning' in terms of a new
local ancestral beginning, as opposed to ksage which refers to ancestral
descent through lineage sections; see illustration of local group
formation along patrilineal kinship ties in Figure 14 (Chapter 3.6).
Kavere durghwe
The three rock pillars representing the three 'granaries' of Durghwe; see
Chapter 3.17 for more details about the cosmography of Durghwe; the
three rock pillars also represented the three shrines allocated to the
Dghweɗe, the Chikiɗe and the Guduf; the Btha lineage of the Thakara
of Ghwa'a was responsible for subregional sacrifices.
Kavire
Temporary storage facility for sorghum in the front yard of a house
(sorghum had a cosmological significance and needed particular ritual
attention when it was harvested, threshed and brought into the house);
see har gwazgafte (slaughtering for divinity) in Chapter 3.12.
Kba
War helmet (see Plate 56a) worn by ngwa kwalanglanga, ngwa yiye
and bak zalika; the ritual wearing of a war helmet during the different
stages of dzum zugune only began after the first half of the second
stage when the ngwa garda had run downhill and changed into ngwa
kwalanglanga to dance uphill again; see also the public fstaha
initiation ritual of the ngwa yiye described in Chapter 3.14.
Kɗafa
Ritual meal dedicated to a first wife on reaching the seventh month of
her first pregnancy; was linked to the transformation of a three-legged
cooking pot into a personal spirit or god pot (see Chapter 3.12).
Khalale
Lineage shrine; water spirit; the word is similar to the Mafa word
halalay which not only meant water spirit but was also used for a
sacred grove or hilltop representing a shrine dedicated to the local
ancestor of a clan or lineage group (see Chapter 3.9).
Khuɗi luwa
Dghweɗe word for hillside hamlet (khuɗi = stomach; luwa =
settlement); also has a cosmological dimension as luwa is also a
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