A Study of "The Origin Scripture of Remeicuo
This study examines "The Origin Scripture of Remeicuo," an orally-recited Dongba text preserved by 81-year-old Naxi Dongba priest He Yucai and recorded in Naxi pictographic script. Comparing "Remeicuo" (also called "Wore") with primitive musical/dance traditions of African and European peoples—especially "spirit-expelling" song-dance forms—the author argues it represents an authentic surviving pre-societal art form. Ten features support this: exclusion of instruments (vocal music preceding instrumental), polyphonic and non-scalar structure, natural/instinctual sound origins mimicking animal cries, connection to primal survival anxieties tied to hunting-gathering economies, links to totemic biological worship predating shamanism, fusion with primitive circular dance movements, corroboration by surviving matrilineal marriage and burial-worship customs, evolution within Dongba scripture into an ambivalent spirit-deity, precedence over Dongba religion itself (absent even in Tibetan source culture), and minimal modern contamination, making it a "living musical fossil" now threatened by modern media and "improvement" efforts. The scripture's pictographic translation is "leaping demon," with related written scriptures existing on tree-felling and inheritance-division myths.
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