Hơ Âng
Rade (Ede) · mortal · Rade (Ede) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Hơ Âng is the sister of Đăm Săn and the vessel of the epic's cyclical close. After the hero is swallowed in the Black Mud Forest, his soul returns to the world through his sister, whose son bears his name and, by the same matrilineal logic that opened the tale, is destined to marry the sisters Hơ Nhị and Hơ Bhị anew. Through her the story turns back upon itself, so that the death of the hero is not an ending but the renewal of his line, expressing the Ede belief in continuity through the mother's descent.
Domains
- kinship
Powers
- bears the hero reborn, renewing the line
Relations
- sibling: Đăm SănNguyễn Hữu Thấu (ed.), Sử thi Ê-đê: Đăm Săn (2003). (primary)
Sources
- Hơ Âng is the sister of Đăm Săn through whom, in the epic's cyclical ending, the dead hero is reborn to renew his line and marriage.: Nguyễn Hữu Thấu (ed.), Sử thi Ê-đê: Đăm Săn (Hà Nội, 2003). (primary)