OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/107968

Metadata
Title:		SD1-335
Bibliographic Citation:		Sopune, Pitu (Ebbe), Danerek, H. Stefan, Vhara Kula, Danerek, H. Stefan, Ngei du'a; 2016-01-03; Genre Folk tale (fairy tale/myth). Title: Ratu pati ana ata wai (The kIng cuts his daughter). Mama Ngei, a grandmother who lives alone in a hut in kampong Mata Mere, tells a fairy tale, here given the title ‘Ratu pati ana ataa wai' (The King cuts his daughter) after the main event, which resembles a sacrifice. The king leaves his pregnant wife for a journey, saying that, upon returning, he fires his rifle from the sea, and the wife answers with a shot, it is a girl, and then the baby should be killed and the liver left for him to eat. If it is a boy, the wife should not reply the rifle shot. The wife does not kill her beautiful daughter but keeps the baby with her grandmother in the hills. When the king finds out, he goes with a machete to find the daughter. When he finds her, she asks her father to not kill her at the spot but tells of another place toward the sea where her blood will become sea water and her flesh and bones become soil and rock. This is conveyed in poetic language; the place names are poetic. Curiously the tale ends like the tale Depa Lélu Léna/Diji, there is the same intervention by an eagle, or a pair of eagles, who assemble the body parts and blood and make the child live again. The child becomes their child. When the child's parents find out they want the child back. The mother, and the grandmother, negotiate with the eagle(s), offering different goods that are rejected by the eagle because they are useless to the eagle. This is like in the mentioned Depa Lélu Léna tale. In the end, the humans offer the eagle chicken, and the tale ends, there should have been a kind of reply or explanation, but it is understood that the offer is accepted. The deal is understanding of the eagles' hunger for chicken, that often are kept and bred by humans, they have the right because they helped bring back a human child to life and returned her to her parents. The tale was recorded by Pitu Sopune 3 Jan -16 in the morning. A few neighbours and children were sitting by listening. On this occasion, Pitu used the AT Lavalier mono-microphone, which we rarely used, but the recording came out alright. Mostly transcribed and translated to Indonesian by Vhara Kula 23/24 as part of a project supported by a Firebird Foundation research grant for the documentation of oral literature and traditional ecological knowledge.; wav file at 44.1 KHz 16 bits, eaf file; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107968.
Contributor (consultant):		Danerek, H. Stefan
Contributor (interviewer):		Vhara Kula
Contributor (participant):		Ngei du'a
Contributor (speaker):		Danerek, H. Stefan
Coverage (ISO3166):		ID
Creator:		Sopune, Pitu (Ebbe)
Date (W3CDTF):		2016-01-03
Description:		Genre Folk tale (fairy tale/myth). Title: Ratu pati ana ata wai (The kIng cuts his daughter). Mama Ngei, a grandmother who lives alone in a hut in kampong Mata Mere, tells a fairy tale, here given the title ‘Ratu pati ana ataa wai' (The King cuts his daughter) after the main event, which resembles a sacrifice. The king leaves his pregnant wife for a journey, saying that, upon returning, he fires his rifle from the sea, and the wife answers with a shot, it is a girl, and then the baby should be killed and the liver left for him to eat. If it is a boy, the wife should not reply the rifle shot. The wife does not kill her beautiful daughter but keeps the baby with her grandmother in the hills. When the king finds out, he goes with a machete to find the daughter. When he finds her, she asks her father to not kill her at the spot but tells of another place toward the sea where her blood will become sea water and her flesh and bones become soil and rock. This is conveyed in poetic language; the place names are poetic. Curiously the tale ends like the tale Depa Lélu Léna/Diji, there is the same intervention by an eagle, or a pair of eagles, who assemble the body parts and blood and make the child live again. The child becomes their child. When the child's parents find out they want the child back. The mother, and the grandmother, negotiate with the eagle(s), offering different goods that are rejected by the eagle because they are useless to the eagle. This is like in the mentioned Depa Lélu Léna tale. In the end, the humans offer the eagle chicken, and the tale ends, there should have been a kind of reply or explanation, but it is understood that the offer is accepted. The deal is understanding of the eagles' hunger for chicken, that often are kept and bred by humans, they have the right because they helped bring back a human child to life and returned her to her parents. The tale was recorded by Pitu Sopune 3 Jan -16 in the morning. A few neighbours and children were sitting by listening. On this occasion, Pitu used the AT Lavalier mono-microphone, which we rarely used, but the recording came out alright. Mostly transcribed and translated to Indonesian by Vhara Kula 23/24 as part of a project supported by a Firebird Foundation research grant for the documentation of oral literature and traditional ecological knowledge.
		Region: Palu'e, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. Recording made in kampong Ko'a, Ko'a domain.
Format:		wav file at 44.1 KHz 16 bits
		eaf file
		0:04:02
Identifier:		SD1-335
Identifier (URI):		https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107968
Language:		Palu'e
Language (ISO639):		ple
Subject:		Palu'e language
Subject (ISO639):		ple
Table Of Contents:		SD1-335.eaf
		SD1-335.wav
Type (DCMI):		Sound
		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		Kaipuleohone
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/107968
DateStamp:		2024-11-21
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Sopune, Pitu (Ebbe). 2016. Kaipuleohone.
Terms:		area_Asia country_ID dcmi_Sound dcmi_Text iso639_ple olac_primary_text
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Indonesia
Area:		Asia