A Study of the Naxi "Sutra of Sacrificing to the Wind — Inviting the God Luo"
This posthumously published 1993 study presents linguist Fu Maoxun's philological edition (compiled by his widow, Xu Lin) of a Naxi Dongba/Geba scripture collected in 1945 in Lijiang. It opens with an editor's foreword on the manuscript's history, followed by a technical introduction covering the Naxi phonemic inventory (44 consonants, 12 vowels, 4 tones) as spoken by the reciting priest He Fang, a grammar sketch (word order, particles, adjectival and verbal modification), and a description of the dual Geba-Dongba script used to write the text. The scripture itself -- a 396-line verse text in ten narrative sections -- describes a household troubled by ill omens, a divination revealing ghostly threats, proverbial maxims about preparedness, the summoning of a Dongba priest and deities, and a concluding vision of ethnic harmony and agricultural prosperity attributed to the god Luo. The article reproduces roughly the first 67 lines with interlinear phonetic transcription, word-for-word gloss, and a free translation of the opening lines.
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