tamate1 a high-profile Spirit that comes out in villages during ritual [...]

Part of Speech proper noun
Phonetic Form tamate
    • a high-profile Spirit that comes out in villages during ritual dances and important celebrations
      • Myth
      • Encyclopedic Info Hist.: This cultural practice was historically borrowed from the Banks islands (iura) further south – an island mythically called Veluko.
      • Example 2316:
        Ka pon dapa moro abia ponu, Tamate pon pe li-te ñi pe li-mako li-mako, nedemo, tomoro, nedemo, tomoro…
        Every single day, the Tamate creatures who lived there would keep dancing on and on – during the night, the day, the night, the day…
        Example URL
        https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S47
      • Example 2317:
        Tamate pon, et’ adapa pon “Takulalevioe”.
        As for the Tamate, their mother was called Takulalefioe.
        Example URL
        https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S91

Related entries

  • Heterosemes:
    • tamate2 mask, headdress worn during the tamate ritual dances, representing the tamate spirits
  • See also:
    • tadoe1 ancestral spirit, representing the soul of an ancestor. These anonymous, invisible spirits haunt the island and live around humans / used metonymically for the bush, the wild, e.g. for certain plant names when they are not fit for human consumption and belong to the forest / representation of spirits through sculptures or headdresses / deity, ancestral god worshipped in ancient times / the Christian God
    • Takole “Takulalefioe”: name of a deity, mother of the tamate creatures. Variant name of Takulalevioe
    • Takulalevioe “Takulalefioe”: name of a deity, mother of the tamate creatures. Variant name of Takulalevioe
    • Mata Tilu name of a Spirit (tamate), with two antenna-like eyes (bemata)
    • Mata Teva name of a Spirit (tamate), with four antenna-like eyes (bemata)
    • Aele Teulungo name of a Spirit (tamate), with thick legs
    • kolokolo1 “breast plate” made of clamshell, tradit. worn by dignitaries (wopine, teliki)
    • kolokolo2 name of a Spirit (tamate)
    • Veluko Feluko: a mythical island located southeast of Vanikoro, in northern Vanuatu (iura) – the origin of tamate dances and masks