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Tughdhe gude
Ritual beer pot with small aperture for the first wife's loft (gude tighe);
see photograph in Plate 43a (Chapter 3.12).
Tughdhe kule
Ritual beer pot with small aperture (tughdhe) to take to the grave (kule)
of a deceased father; was stored in the deceased father's ancestor room;
see photograph in Plate 35d (Chapter 3.11); see also Figure 20b for the
spatial dimension or the 'way' of doing har ghwe after death of zal
thaghaya as father and husband of the house.
Tughdhe thala
Ritual beer pots with small apertures (tughdhe) stored in the 'stomach'
of the house shrine (khuɗi thala); the tughdhe thala of the living father
of the house and the tughdhe thala (also known as the zal jije pot) of
his deceased grandfather are stored there; see photographs in Plates
26c and 26c (Chapter 3.11) and Plate 37a and 37b (Chapter 3.12).
Tva
Abbreviation of 'red cows' (thah tva); see Chapter 3.14 about role of
'red cows' and 'black cows' (thah lusa) as representations of the second
and third stages of dzum zugune; tva-kul-kule meant an orangey-red not
a dark red; tva-kul-kule for this lighter shade of red referred to the
colour spots on a cow (Chapter 3.22).
V
Vaghagaya
Largest lineage section in Dghweɗe; ancestral 'son' of Mughuze-Ruwa
(see the Dghweɗe lineage tree in Figure 12); Vaghagaya's mother was
Dugh Viye Hembe also known as 'Bughwithe' (see Figure 12b on key
marriages of Mughuze and Vaghagaya); see also Figure 12c
(Vaghagaya lineage tree); Vaghagaya's mother was accused by her cowives of witchcraft but she was able to reassert herself as the first wife
of Mughuze; see legendary account about outsiders as founders in
Chapter 3.5 and in Chapter 3.20 about past ways of marrying in
Dghweɗe.
Vaghiya
Guinea corn year (vag = year; hiya = guinea corn); see Table 5b
showing the Dghweɗe calendar linked to the Gregorian calendar
(Chapter 3.8); the Dghweɗe had a bi-annual seasonal calendar and
alternated between a guinea corn year and a millet year (vagwira); we
conclude that during colonial times the guinea corn year (vaghiya) still
had a greater variety of attached calendrical rituals (see Chapter 3.8).
Vagwira
Millet year (vag = year; wira = millet); see Table 5b showing the
Dghweɗe calendar linked to the Gregorian calendar (Chapter 3.8); the
millet year traditionally had fewer calendrical rituals but during my
time some of the previously bi-annual rituals had become annual (see
Chapter 3.8 for details on har ghwe and har jije); one reason might
have been the increasing use of chemical fertiliser, the use of which
had been officially promoted since colonial times (Chapter 3.10).
Vaima
Also known as 'Baima'; was a ward head of Ghwa'a in the mid-1920s
and belonged to the Ɗagha peacemaker lineage; Vaima led the
montagnard delegation to Maiduguri to complain about Hamman Yaji's
attacks (see oral protagonist's account in Chapter 2.2).
Vakwaɗa
Swearing place (see also ghawaghawa = cursing); consult section in
Chapter 3.15 on existential personhood about individuals proclaiming
innocence in the face of public sorcery accusations in the past.
Vale
Wind; earth's atmosphere; see Chapter 3.16 where we reconstruct the
Dghweɗe cosmographic worldview of the pre-colonial past; vale was
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