New
postings
Buyi
Gods and Totems:
(20100625
The
dragon is the most important totem of the Buyi. According to their
legends they were originated from the mating of a man with a Dragon
woman. They think there are dragons everywhere, in valleys and mountains,
and the people must be careful to do not disturb dragons
Yuanjiang
Hani, Yi And Dai Autonomous County. (20100623)
Home
of some Hani groups, Dai and Yi branches. The women of these branches
wear different dresses. Their languages are different, and the people
belonging to each branch celebrate their main festivals in a different
way.
The
Great Tibetans II (Greater than the Potala Palace):
Photo- (20100622)
Thousands
of pilgrims, arrived from different places walked from the morning
until night around the Potala Palace, the Jorkhand Temple or the
perimeter of the Old City.
Hani
Cultural Themes (201010621)
This
book provides some interesting information about the Hani culture,
but drawing materials from different sources, lacks a sense of harmony,
of being a single book and not a patchwork of different materials.
The
religion of the Hani Yiche: Updated 20100613
They
believe that people are eminently spiritual beings that have twelve
souls. After death the soul of people becomes a spirit.
The
Yiche (Yicyu) branch of the Hani Nationality: (20100609)
There
are three main characteristic that differentiate the Yiche people:
the short dressed by the Yiche women, their retarded marriage and
sexual freedom, and the specill way they celebrated the Kuzhazha
Festival.
Birth
ceremonies of the Jingpo Nationality: (20100608)
Just
after the umbilical cordon is buried, an old folk will be invited
to bind his wrist with cotton strings, if the new born is a boy
a red string will be tied in his right wrist; if is a girl will
be tied to her left wrist
The
Akha in 1905 as seen by Fred W. Carey: (20100603)
There
is an extraordinary variety of them, as they are divided into clans,
and again into families. The women of each family have adopted a
different head-dress, and by this distinctive mark one may know
them apart.
In
most of the Bai villages the religious life turns around the cult
to Guanyin and their Benzhu or Local Lords cults. The cult to Guanyin
is mixed with some ancestral feminine cults, as usually include
rituals related with the fertility and the protection of the children.
The
history of the Nusu: Updated.
A
history of oppression. The Nusu believe they descend from a feminine
ancestress.
The
Great Tibetans I (Greater than the buildings):
Photo- (20100525)
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