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Sakgharkhfire
Spirit or god pot; literally 'pot on top of your head where you sleep';
see photograph in Plate 40a and bulama Ngatha's description in
Chapter 3.12; this pot protected his spirit (sɗukwe) while asleep.
Sɗukwe
Human spirit; derived from the word sɗukwe vagha for human shadow
(sɗukwe = shadow; vagha = body); we distinguish 'spirit' (sɗukwe)
from 'soul' (safa); we understand sɗukwe (shadow) as the mental
representation of the human faculties and safa (breath) as the
transcending vital principle; see Chapter 3.15 about Dghweɗe ideas
around existential personhood.
Sɗukwe vagha
Human shadow (sɗukwe = shadow; vagha = body); see Chapter 3.15.
Shatane [shaitan]
'Evil spirit'; a Dghweɗe expression of earlier Islamic or later Christian
influence; was used by healer-diviner Katiwa ga Ghuda of Ghwa'a as a
substitute for gwazgafte (divinity) when referring in an interview to his
own healing 'evil spirit'; see discussion of Katiwa ga Ghuda's oral
account in Chapters 3.15 and 3.21.
Shire
General name for a pot to fetch water; see bulama Ngatha's list of types
of pots in Chapter 3.12.
Shiwe
Ziziphus abyssinica; was used to make tsaga stick for bull festival; see
Table 7b (Chapter 3.10) and Figure 21a (Chapter 3.13).
Sishe
Cosmological serpent embracing this world (luwa) by biting its tail as a
symbol of reproduction; also known as Ouroboros; see illustration of
cosmographic mirror worlds in Figure 25 (Chapter 3.16).
Siye
Bush fields, fallow land; see illustration of a model of the general
Dghweɗe farm layout in Figure 17 (Chapter 3.10).
Ske
Ancestor of the rainmaker lineage Gaske; from same ancestral 'kitchen'
(kuɗige) as Gudule; see illustration in Chapter 3.13 of Ske and Gudule
as ancestral full-brothers; see also Chapter 3.7 about specialist
lineages.
Skmama
Generation mate of a deceased father (dada) or grandfather (jije); see
Figure 14 (Chapter 3.6), and Figures 20a and 20b (Chapter 3.12) to see
how generation mates acted as family priests (zal jije).
Sknukwe
Exogamous lineage brother (Chapter 3.6); was most likely responsible
for cooking sauce in the ritual sauce kitchen (see groundplan in Figure
18) in the context of the har jije sacrifice to a deceased grandfather
(consult Chapter 3.12 for more details).
Sukdu-skwa nay varmbe
Someone short-leasing out a piece of farmland: 'sell out to get it back'
(sukdu-skwa = sell-buy; nay varmbe = getting it back); see John's
account about changes in local resource management (Chapter 3.10).
Sunde
Placenta pot; a ritual pot buried outside a house (Chapter 3.12)
Susiye
Bushland; see susiye in the general layout of a Dghweɗe farm (gwihe)
as presented in Figure 17 (Chapter 3.10).
Suteke
Large ritual beer pot with a small aperture used during adult initiation
(dzum zugune); see Plate 59f and description in Chapter 3.14.
Suwa
Shuwa Arabs; see oral account about late pre-colonial contact while
delivering tribute to the Wandala of Mora via Mozogo (Chapter 2.1).
Suya
Hausa: skewer kebab; see oral account of journey to Madagali as part
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