Holidays of the jino

TEMAOQIE:

Traditional holiday of the Jino that is celebrated when the chief or chief of the village decides it, according to the climate. The day of the holiday a person of every family must take the arch and the arrows and the shotgun and go out to the mount to catch two ratasde yellow mouth, which presents the chief and chief of the village, and then to go out to catch two rats of bamboo that will give the blacksmith. It is a respect holiday to the biggest and also to this blacksmith whose metal instruments must plow the ground and cut the trees.

YEAR NEW JINO OR TEBIKAI

It is celebrated in the twelfth lunar month, in date that the chiefs of the village decide after consulting with the fortune tellers for an auspiciosa. Then he is elected from three to seven young people who are going to buy the cow of the year. On eve day the cow sacrifices itself to the outskirts of the village, and the tail is left in the tree. The meat, skin, blood and intestines splits between the people. This day the chief takes wine to meat, with the young people who bought the cow, to house of the blacksmith to do a ceremony. On having finished, the women beat the wooden drum, while the men dance forming a circle opposite the same one. The women form an exterior circle to that of the men singing and dancing.
In addition to the cow that is distributed, the people eat only wild animals. On having finished the holiday, the people are going to house of the chief to present his respects, which two chickens and a dog kills for his guests.
Also the farming instruments appear and one declares that the epoch of agricultural production has begun.

HOLIDAY OF TORCH JINO

Without fixed date, but about 24 of the sixth lunar month.
After the night comes one listens to sounds of the gong, screams and whistles, and elders and young people, men and women take small torches, wine of rice and other food, meeting in the square where there is a big torch. In front of the fire a few young people is raised to a tree and throw meal to the multitude while they sing the songs of the holiday. The young people sings and dances the whole night, speaking about love.
During the holiday also bulls fights are realized.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

The drum is the most sacred of the ceremonial objects and of the musical instruments jino. Of more than one meter and a half of length and one of circumference, his face is of bull skin. In normal epoch the drum is in the house of the chiefs of the village and it is not allowed that anybody touches it. Whenever there is a holiday the chief of the village touches three times the drum. And they all begin dancing the dance of the big drum.

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