Qobu Jjumu
Yi · mortal · Yi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Qobu Jjumu is the ancestral patriarch who stands at the hinge of the mythic and human ages in the Nuosu Book of Origins. In the genealogy chanted by the bimo he fathers three sons, and it is his youngest, Jjumu Vuvu, who, warned of the coming deluge, seals himself in a wooden chest and survives while his brothers, trusting vessels of iron and bronze, perish. Through this surviving son and the son's celestial marriage the human clans descend, so that Qobu Jjumu is remembered as the father of the flood generation from whom the reckoning of Nuosu ancestry proceeds.
Domains
- ancestry and progenitors
Powers
- to father the three brothers whose fates divide at the great flood
Epithets
- Qobu JjumuBender, Mark, Aku Wuwu, and Jjivot Zopqu, trans. The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. (secondary)
Relations
- father of: Jjumu VuvuHe is named as the father of Jjumu Vuvu, the youngest of his three sons and the sole survivor of the flood.Bender, Mark, Aku Wuwu, and Jjivot Zopqu, trans. The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. (secondary)
Sources
- Qobu Jjumu is the ancestral patriarch of the flood generation in the Nuosu Book of Origins, father of three brothers of whom the youngest, Jjumu Vuvu, alone survives the great flood to continue the human line.: Bender, Mark, Aku Wuwu, and Jjivot Zopqu, trans. The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. (secondary); Bamo Qubumo. "Traditional Nuosu Origin Narratives: A Case Study of Ritualized Epos in Bimo Incantation Scriptures." Oral Tradition 16, no. 2 (2001): 453-479. (secondary)