Shumba · Lion
Shumba Murambwi is a Shona clan of the lion totem, Shumba. Its men are greeted as Murambwi and Shumba, and its women as Masibanda. The detembo also calls the clan Matikaha, Mushereketi, Mutsikapanyoro, Chipamutoro and Mhungubwe, and names it among the children of Chivi and the Mhari.
Maita Murambwi, Maita Shumba, Matikaha, Kuona chiso.
Hekanhi chibwa, Mushereketi, Vadzimba vedu, variritiri, Mutsikapanyoro, vana vaChivi, Vakanyairi, vadyi vemhuka. Maita Shumba yangu yiyi,
Hekanhi bumhi rangu riri, Maita vaMhari, Chipamutoro, Vari Nyaningwe, Vari Chamahota, Maita VaMhungudza,
Vari Baradzanawa. Zvaonekwa vaMhari, variChitonje, Vanomuka ngwe namasikati, Zvaitwa Matikaha nokuone gumbo, Kuone munhu vanovhunduka. Maita varere Baradzanwa, Kwakaparadzanwa baba afa, Hekanhi Mhungubwe yangu yiyi. Zvaitwa mwana waChivi, Aiwa zvaonekwa Mhungubwe, vaNyamukanga, Makovere. Zvaitwa muNyaningwe, Chibwa.
Your mutupo and its detembo as an image for WhatsApp, your status or a post, carrying the Kwaunobva mark.
Murambwi is itself a lion's name: Duramazwi explains it as a Shumba praise name that speaks of how the lion is disliked by the animals it hunts. The detembo opens on it, then calls the clan the children of Chivi, those who creep (vakanyairi) and eat game (vadyi vemhuka). It greets them among the Mhari at Chitonje, at Nyaningwe and Chamahota, and names VaMhungudza, Nyamukanga and Makovere.
One place gets its own explanation. The poem greets the clan as those who rest at Baradzanawa, and in the next line gives the name's sense: the place where people parted when the father died (kwakaparadzanwa baba afa). It also says the clan are startled at the sight of a person, and it keeps returning to Mhungubwe, closing on that name and on Chibwa at Nyaningwe.
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.
Shumba Murambwi mutupo weShumba. Varume vanokudzwa seMurambwi naShumba, vakadzi seMasibanda. Detembo ravo rinovati vana vaChivi, vakanyairi, vadyi vemhuka, uye rinovakwazisa pakati pavaMhari. Rinoti vakarere kuBaradzanawa, kwakaparadzanwa baba afa. Rinopera nezita rokuti Mhungubwe.
Duramazwi explains Murambwi as a praise name of the Shumba people that speaks of how the lion is disliked by the animals it hunts. The clan's detembo opens on it.
Duramazwi gives Mhari as one of the Shumba praise names and calls a muMhari a person of the Shumba Murambwi clan; one of its examples also calls the VaMhari a branch of the Karanga. The detembo greets the clan as VaMhari at Chitonje.
Men are greeted as Murambwi and Shumba, and women as Masibanda. The detembo adds Matikaha, Mushereketi, Mutsikapanyoro, Chipamutoro, Mhungubwe and Chibwa, and calls the clan the children of Chivi.
In Chivi, 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 Shumba clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
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