Nhewa · leopard
Nhewa is the leopard: its poem calls it ingwe ina mavara, the spotted leopard, and praises it as the killer that kills in the open, with no bush to hide it. It is kept by the Nhewa Simboti clan, praised as Simboti, Chiruka, Nyakuzvibatira, Chikatsa and Nyamuteyi, the child of Nyamaruodzo.
The Simboti poem greets the clan at Kutsoka, Mhembere, Mundimu, Chai, Ukuhu, Tezi, Tawangena and Sena, and remembers Nyamaruodzo, who went into a cave with his dogs. Its picture of the leopard, the killer that strikes in the open where there is not even a bush, is the one the Shumba Gurundoro and Mhazi poems use of the lion, and the Gurundoro clan keeps the leopard alongside the lion.
Nhewa mutupo wevanhu vanoera ingwe. Detembo reSimboti rinoiti ingwe ina mavara, mhondi inopondera pachena pasina kana negwenzi. Vanorumbidzwa seSimboti, Chiruka naNyakuzvibatira, mwana waNyamaruodzo. Nyamaruodzo akapinda mubuwe nembwa dzake.
The leopard. The Simboti poem calls it ingwe ina mavara, the spotted leopard, and ingwe is the Shona word for the leopard. No other source here glosses nhewa itself.
The Nhewa poem praises the leopard as the killer that kills in the open, with not even a bush for cover, words the Shumba Gurundoro and Mhazi poems use of the lion. The Gurundoro clan also keeps the leopard alongside the lion.
Nhewa Simboti.
Traditionally, people of the same mutupo and chidawo do not marry: they are counted as one family. Between different Nhewa clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
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