obara part of the boys' initiation ceremony

• • part of the boys' initiation ceremony
  • • culture

  • • Example 5063:
      

      Ore paa momohu kahi paku bona taba to dao riori bona aobo. A obara o hum to kahi vaatavusu nana bona kan upee na dao riori bona vaaobo.

      First they will make this thing called the "aobo". The "obara" , the part where they let the group of upee boys go out, they call it the "vaaobo".

      Source: San 03R 069-075

    • Example 5064:
      

      A obara bona he na tii me nana bona maamihu taba an,

      This obara has all (kinds of) food,

      Source: San 03R 082

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• See also:
  • aobo part of the upee ceremony in which the upee boys are allowed to leave the tobara house
  • Goeve giant creature of Teop legend which is half man and half monster / figure made of wood and the dreadlocks cut from the heads of past upee boys, symbolising a demon and used in the "obara" part of the upee ceremony