Southeast Asia Digital Library

Lessons for becoming a shaman, speech to undertake rice worship, chants of purification before worship of Mr. Heng, mourning rituals, methods for evoking Heng, methods to build a catafalque, constructing Heng's body, days for cremation and picture of cremation

text

manuscripts (document genre)

1950-2000

This manuscript was written by Mr. Thanh May from the original manuscript of Mr. Tai Nguc (Mr. Thanh May's grandfather) in 1978 and owned by Mr. Thanh May.

100 unnumbered pages

Cham manuscript, bound by staples, written in pen (3 colors: blue, red, blank) on book paper. Covered in hard paper. The status of the manuscript is good, many pages with erased pen, some pages written across. The manuscript has 17 blank pages.

The topics of the manuscript are ceremonies, religion. The content is about Lessons for becoming a shaman, speech to undertake rice worship, chants of purification before worship of Mr. Heng, mourning rituals, methods for evoking Heng, methods to build a catafalque, constructing Heng's body, days for cremation and picture of cremation.

Digitization of this manuscript was funded by the British Libaries' Endangered Archives Programme through the project, Digitisation of the Endangered Cham Manuscripts of Vietnam (no. EAP698).

Chamic languages

Rites and ceremonies
Religion

Rites and ceremonies
Religion