Hơ Bhị
Rade (Ede) · mortal · Rade (Ede) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Hơ Bhị is the younger of the two sisters married to Đăm Săn under the juê nuê obligation. With her elder sister Hơ Nhị she holds the wealth of a great matriline, and her fate is joined to her sister's throughout the epic: both are carried off by rival chiefs, both die when the hero fells the sacred smuk tree, and both are revived by the remedy he brings down from the sky-lord Aê Diê. The pairing of the two sister-wives reflects the Ede rule that a man taking a wife from a house may also be bound to her sister, and that succession runs through the women of the line.
Domains
- clan hearth
Powers
- shares the hearth and heritage of the matriline
Relations
- spouse: Đăm SănSabatier, La Chanson de Damsan (1927). (primary)
- sibling: Hơ NhịSabatier, La Chanson de Damsan (1927). (primary)
Sources
- Hơ Bhị is the younger sister-wife of Đăm Săn, married to him with her sister Hơ Nhị under the matrilineal levirate.: Léopold Sabatier (coll.), La Chanson de Damsan (Paris, 1927). (primary)