Soko · Monkey
Soko Murehwa is a Shona clan of the Soko totem, the monkey. Its men are greeted as Murehwa and Soko, and the detembo also calls the clan Matarira, Marovahombe, Mukanya and mwana webveni, the child of the baboon. Its women are greeted as MaNcube, Mwenewazvo or Soko.
Maita Soko, Maita Murehwa, Zvaitwa Matarira, Soko yangu yiyi. Maita Marovahombe, mwana webveni, Chirongo changu chichichi. Zvaitwa Mukanya, zvaitwa tateguru, Zvaitwa Wagutahuzamura. Maita zvenyu vari Kakoromokwa, VaGurusvusvu, vana vaGurumwandira. Maita Varisinamhapa, VaChitambaneruwere,
Vamahobi anenge rihwa. Zvaitwa Mukuruvara, Mushonga namawere. Kuziva zvenyu Mvurume. Maita mwana waPfumojena, Muranga nepfumo. Maita vaJena, Chirongo changu chichichi, Vano kufamba kunenge kukavira nyimo, Kutizira kuchinge kudyara nzungu, Makudzagwara, vanorarama nezvokuba. Maita vari Mandiya, Vari Kaporomondo.
Zvaitwa mwana webveni, Makumbe, Vakakumba zvese netsombori, Mukati pahwenya napahwohwa namatunduru, Matamba nehute zvose, Vana vaNzvere naKanorimona, mhanza ichipenyn'a Semheni yemvura yemunhurukwa. Maita zvenyu vaChibatebate,
Pambambarize maiti mobviswa maiti ndofira pano. Pamasvosve maitakura chara negumbo vaHuye Mukonde. Mava pashongwe mokarara mukono waTingini Wakabva Mahumwi kwakarera mukanwa nomunyu. Maita mwana waChinamhora, Vanebvudzi risingapumhwi,
Vana vaMushambanezhizha.
Zvaitwa mwana waTingini, ari Mahumwi, Anokwira rupara nemeno, Tatenda Chirongo changu chichi, Aiwa zvaonekwa Mugagami.
Your mutupo and its detembo as an image for WhatsApp, your status or a post, carrying the Kwaunobva mark.
The detembo greets the clan as Murehwa and Matarira, Marovahombe and Mukanya, and calls it mwana webveni, the child of the baboon, and Chirongo, the clay pot. It names the clan the child of Pfumojena, the white spear, and of Chinamhora, and remembers Tingini, who came from Mahumwi, along with Gurusvusvu, Gurumwandira, Nzvere and Kanorimona. It greets the clan at Kakoromokwa, Mandiya and Kaporomondo.
Much of the poem is fond teasing. It calls the clan Chitambaneruwere, the one who plays on the bare rock, likens its walk and its run to planting nyimo and groundnuts, and says it lives by taking (vanorarama nezvokuba). It speaks of bald heads that shine like lightning and of a clan that climbs a cliff with its teeth (anokwira rupara nemeno), and closes on Mugagami.
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.
Soko Murehwa mutupo weSoko. Varume vanokudzwa seMurehwa naSoko, vakadzi seMaNcube naMwenewazvo. Detembo ravo rinovadaidza kuti Matarira, Marovahombe, Mukanya nemwana webveni. Rinoti mwana waPfumojena naChinamhora, uye rinorangarira Tingini akabva Mahumwi. Rinovatamba richiti vanorarama nezvokuba uye vanokwira rupara nemeno.
Yes. A study note on totems lists Murehwa among the Soko praise names, each of which marks a sub-clan, and the detembo greets this clan as Murehwa in its second line.
The child of the baboon. The Soko Murehwa detembo gives the clan that name twice, beside Marovahombe and beside Makumbe.
The poem calls the clan the child of Tingini and says Tingini came from Mahumwi. It says nothing more of Tingini, and no other source here does.
In Goromonzi, Murehwa and Shamva, 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 Soko clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
Pick your totem and clan once. The app greets you by your praise name after that.
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