Makombe · Pig
Makombe Nyanguru is a Shona clan of the Humba totem, the wild pig, and shares its detembo with Humba Nyanguru; Makombe is the ancestor that poem names. Its men are greeted as Humba and Makombe, and its women as Humba or VaHonde. The detembo also praises the clan as Chiunga, Nguruve, Nyanguru and Chitambanamatope.
Maita Chiunga, Maita Humba, Mwana waMakombe, Chomera, Maita Nguruve, Mutakurwa. Zvaitwa tateguru wangu Makombe, Maita waDukudza, ari Jekacheka. Maita Chirema, Chirimanemuromo, Mapadza aripo, Asi muchiapa varanda. Maita vari Barwe, Gwindingwi guru, Vanodzira imba nematope,
Muno muromo unenge gombe rekucheresa mvura. Zvaitwa Nyanguru, Makapedza rudzi rwavamwe nenyuchi, Maita vakarota, Zvaonekwa Rima, Tatenda vaChevakaranga naChibonoyo. Zvaitwa waGosa, Mwana waZunzangara. Maita variKaromokapuwe. Tinotenda variMatitima. Kuna Nyadekese, kuna Zambezi. Aiwa zvaitwa mwana waMatope. Zvaonekwa Nyanguru. Zvaonekwa Humba. Nguruve, Chitambanamatope.
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Makombe is a name, not an animal. The Mitupo collection prints this detembo once, under the heading Makombe and Nguruve with the title Humba Nyanguru, and the poem calls Makombe 'my ancestor' (tateguru wangu Makombe) and the clan the child of Makombe. The clan's animal is the wild pig, greeted as Humba and as Nguruve.
The poem praises the clan as Chiunga, Chomera and Mutakurwa, and as Chirimanemuromo, the one who ploughs with its mouth, since the hoes are given to the servants. It greets the clan at Barwe, Gwindingwi, Karomokapuwe, Matitima, Nyadekese and the Zambezi, thanks it as waGosa, and closes on Chitambanamatope, the child of Matope. Duramazwi reChiShona gives Gosa as a name of seniority in the chief's house among the Nguruve people.
Those who carry a totem do not eat its animal. Some families keep away from one part of it only, such as the heart, and the old belief holds that a person who breaks the rule loses their teeth.
The praise names are for every day, not only for ceremonies: a person is greeted by them, thanked with them, and a wife praises her husband with his.
Makombe Nyanguru mutupo wehumba, inguruve yomusango, uye detembo ravo ndiro reHumba Nyanguru. Makombe haisi mhuka: detembo rinoti Makombe ndiye tateguru wavo. Varume vanokudzwa seHumba naMakombe, vakadzi seHumba naVaHonde. Rinovakwazisa vari Barwe, Nyadekese nekuZambezi, uye rinopera richiti Nguruve, Chitambanamatope.
These facts concern the Makombe title and the Barwe, not this clan alone. The detembo calls the clan the children of Makombe and greets it at Barwe. Bourdillon's ethnography of the Shona records Makombe as the title held by the rulers of the Barwe state, which lay across the trade routes running inland from Sena. The Portuguese defeated the Barwe in 1646 and afterwards treated the Makombe as a subject ruler, but the Barwe kept their independence, went to war against Portuguese rule in the late nineteenth century and were finally defeated only in 1917. The Barwe live mostly in Mozambique, with a small group on Zimbabwe's eastern border.
Mitupo: A Collection of Some of Zimbabwe's Totems, p. 24; The Shona Peoples: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Shona, With Special Reference to Their Religion, p. 33; The Shona Peoples: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Shona, With Special Reference to Their Religion, p. 34; The Shona Peoples: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Shona, With Special Reference to Their Religion, p. 41
They share one detembo, word for word, which the Mitupo collection prints once, headed Makombe and Nguruve and titled Humba Nyanguru. Both are greeted as Humba and Makombe.
No. In the detembo Makombe is the clan's ancestor, not an animal. The clan's animal is the wild pig, humba or nguruve.
Bourdillon's ethnography of the Shona records Makombe as the title of the rulers of the Barwe state, who long dealt with the Portuguese and were finally defeated by them only in 1917. The detembo names Makombe as the clan's ancestor and greets the clan at Barwe.
In Nyanga, though families carrying it live all over Zimbabwe and beyond.
Traditionally, people of the same mutupo and chidawo do not marry: they are counted as one family. Between different Makombe clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
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