Folklore, Folk Legends, Folk Myths of Kumaon-Garhwal, Haridwar, Uttarkahnd-57
Folklore, Folktales, Folk Ballads, Folk Stories of Human Behavior, Human Emotions, Human Relationship, Human Psychology, Human Sensitivity, Human values, Human Sacrifices, interpersonal bond from Haridwar, Garhwal, Kumaon (Uttarakhand) – 4
(The write up is dedicated to Dr Dinesh Baluni for his works on Kumaon-Garhwal Folk Literature)
Folktales/Folk Song about Human Life Sacrifice in Europe
Sacrificing human life to gods and goddesses is not limited to Garhwal and Kumaon or India. The tradition of human life sacrifice for social cause or self interest has been a common phenomenon from ancient time all over world and in every society. Crucifying of Christ is one example of human life sacrifice for social cause.
There are many folktales in Europe about human sacrifices to gods for social cause or self interest.
There is a folk saying in Sweden that King Aun sacrificed his nine sons to Odin.
There is another traditional song (Buried Alive, Buried Alive!) in Sweden that tells the story that people buried a child live to save them from plague.
There is another folktale for Northern Mythological story, Denmark that tells the story of burying a living child as sacrifice to god for protecting from epidemics.
There is a folk story in Germany that when Hoxter was being fortified a small child was entombed in the wall as human sacrifice to ghost.
There is folk story from Vestenberg, Germany that says the story of child was sealed in a seat of wall as human sacrifice to god or ghost. There are folk stories in Vilmnitz and Burgen in Germany that for uninterrupted work to build churches, people entombed children in both places as human sacrifices.
There is a folk story from Wrangels, Germany that while building a castle the building used to collapse every night. People sacrificed a human life to stall castle.
In Germany, there was folk belief that a virgin was sacrificed for stopping unruly water in the lake.
There are many folktales/folk songs from England those suggest the custom of human life sacrifice for some social causes or bridge making or church building process.
There is folktale/folk song in Turkey that a man killed other man’s wife for a bridge.
Jeero Jhamko Gatha: A Folktale Song about Human Life Sacrifice for Good Rice Crop
There is a famous folk song about Maletha kool that Madho Singh Bhandari sacrificed his son life for digging the canal.
From the same region Badiyar, there is another folk song related to human sacrifice for constructing a water canal for good rice harvesting. Jeero means Basmati rice and Jhamko means good crop.
कुमाऊं, गढ़वाल ,हरिद्वार की लोक गाथाएँ -57
गढ़वाल , कुमाऊं , हरिद्वार, की मानवीय संवेदना आधारित लोकगाथाएँ -4
तै बड्यारी सेरा जीरो झमको
(सन्दर्भ: डा. दिनेश चन्द्र बलूनी , उत्तराखंड की लोक गाथाएँ )
(इंटरनेट प्रस्तुति एवं व्याख्या -भीष्म कुकरेती )
जीरो झमको तै बड्यारी सेरा जीरो झमको
जीरो झमको भै कूल नि औंदी जीरो झमको
लोखारी सेरी भै जीरो झमको
साणी ह्वै गैने बाणी जीरो झमको
हमारी ई सेरी जीरो झमको
कैको होय दोस जीरो झमको
जा दौं मेरा हीत जीरो झमको
गौणि ल्हौदो पूछी जीरो झमको
बोन्नो क्या च मैन जीरो झमको
मनखी बली चैंद जीरो झमको
नैना का बाबा जि जीरो झमको
क्या बुद्द करुला जीरो झमको
बोल धौं मेरी मांजी जीरो झमको
बली कै जि देउला जीरो झमको
बड़ो भैजी दे देउला जीरो झमको
राज सूनो होलो जीरो झमको
बाबा जी दे द्यूला जीरो झमको
कछ्डी सूनी होली जीरो झमको
त्वे दे द्यूँला मांजी जीरो झमको
चुल्लो सूनो होलो जीरो झमको
छुटि भूली दे द्यूँला जीरो झमको
दिसा सूनी ह्वेली जीरो झमको
छोटा भुला की ब्वारी जीरो झमको
तू मैत जाएदी जीरो झमको
ब्वे बाबू देख्यो दी जीरो झमको
भै -बैणि भैंट्या जीरो झमको
The water was not reaching to fertile rice field from canal.
The field owner’s wife says that everybody has planted paddy baring their field. The water was not reaching to the rice field. They asked the future teller. The future teller advised for human life sacrifice for water coming from canal.
They discussed about whom life to be sacrificed.
There would be empty court after scarifying father’s life.
Nobody would be there to cook food after scarifying mother’s life.
Nobody would be there to rule after scarifying elder brother’s life.
There won’t be any direction after scarifying sister’s life.
It was decided that the wife of younger son to be sacrificed.
They told her to go her mother’s house and come back after meeting her parents, brothers, sisters and relatives.
The daughter in law guessed that her in law wanted her sacrifice for deity.
She goes to her mother’s house. While she was returning she asked her mother cook Kheer (a sweet rice pudding) for last time.
She asked her Bhabhi to do her make up for last time. Her mother was sad by listening inauspicious words from her daughter.
Though knowing that her in law wanted to sacrifice her life, she returned from her mother’s house.
They took sacrificed her life to deity. Now, water started reaching to paddy fields with flow.
Her sacrifice paid the result that there was good Rice Crop.
Copyright (Interpretation) @ Bhishma Kukreti, 14/06/2013
Folklore, Folk Legends, Folk Myths of Kumaon-Garhwal-Haridwar (Uttarakhand) to be continued…58
Folklore, Folktales, Folk Ballads, Folk Stories of Human Behavior, Human Relationship, Human Psychology, Human Sensitivity, , Human values, Human Sacrifices, interpersonal bond from Haridwar, Garhwal, Kumaon (Uttarakhand) –5
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