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synonym for this world as opposed to the image of a next world below
and a world above this world (luwa); The word khuɗi also means
womb or belly and is a cosmological image of socio-economic
reproduction linked to food production (see Chapters 3.10 and 3.11).
Khuɗi thala
Centrepiece of Dghweɗe house shrine (khuɗi = stomach; thala = house
shrine); equivalent of khuɗi luwa 'stomach of the settlement' but now
also as individual house shrine as the representation of a cosmological
'stomach' of food production; calendrical rituals of religious worship
start with the sacrifice to the deceased father (dada) and the deceased
grandfather (jije) and end with the ritual release and sacrifice of a stallfed bull (har daghile) by the most successful households across
Dghweɗe; consult Figure 19c for a layout plan of the foyer of a house,
and Plates 25c, 26c and 26d for photographs of a khuɗi thala.
Khwa khwa
Crotal bells made mainly of brass attached to a string worn by ngwa
hamtiwe around the waist during the opening stage of dzum zugune;
see photograph in Plate 58a (Chapter 3.14).
Kiɓa
Fighting stick used by the ngwa yiye (in third stage of adult initiation)
to force the ngwa garda (second stage) to kneel before being allowed
on the downhill running competition; the biological age of the ngwa
garda goes across the age range and there might have been quite a few
ngwa yiye who forced an older neighbour to kneel (see Chapter 3.14).
Kla dughwe
Ritual in which a girl as part of a 'marriage by promise' (dugh dzugwa)
was initiated into her future husband's patriline before sexual maturity;
she was called back when ready to consummate the marriage (see
Chapter 3.20 for more details).
Kla pana
Cultivated terraced land; outer fields (kla = break; pana = corn stalk);
the cultivated farmland outside of khuɗi luwa (hillside hamlet); see
also Figure 17 showing the general Dghweɗe farm layout (Chapter
3.10).
Ksage
Classifying lineal descent back to a remote ancestor, whereas kambarte
refers to a new beginning of a local descent group; ksage has more the
meaning of classification along one line of descent while kambarte
refers to a specific locality where a line of descent once started; see
also kuɗige for patrilocal descent among full-brothers as a model for
future lineage splitting (see Chapter 3.6 for more details).
Ksluwa
West; see Chapter 3.16 about Dghweɗe cosmographic orientation.
Kuɗig daghara
Upper kitchen or right kitchen; see groundplan of a traditional house in
Figures 18, 19b and 19c (Chapters 3.11 and 3.12).
Kuɗig tighe
Lower kitchen or left kitchen (belongs to the first wife); played a
greater ritual role than kuɗig daghara (right kitchen); see Figure 19c
showing 3D illustration of the foyer of a traditional house (Chapter
3.12).
Kuɗige
Brothers of one matrilateral 'kitchen' are often seen as co-descending
ancestors, and ego-centred genealogical descendants from a 'kitchen' of
full-brothers are used to trace intergenerational inheritance rights
(Chapter 3.6 and also Chapter 3.18).
Kula kula
'Talking oracle' used for twin ceremony; divination performed with
hollow branches of the wulinge tree (see Chapter 3.19 for more
details).
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