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Title:Hidden Treasure
Qustan298
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Suleyman Agirman
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-01
Description:Suleyman tells us about a shepherd in the village called Isa, who once found a treasure in the rock. The rock opened and became a tunnel to a cave. He found a big treasure. He only took a vase of dinars of it and hid it in another place. One day, the shepherd thought that he should return the vase to the cave. The rock opened again, and when he came out of it, the rock would not open again. He eventually brought three persons before it. One of them was the priest of the village, who has a book of sorcery. When the priest looked in the book to find a solution, ie. to open the rock again, he said that treasure is cursed. If they force open it, then one person would kill the priest, and the third one would kill the one who killed the priest. They therefore left the treasure alone. Suleyman believes that the treasure is still in its place.
The Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, which is the language of Tur 'Abdin, South Eastern Turkey, with an estimated 20 families remaining in the village.This project will document socio-cultural practices of the Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales, particularly those that demonstrate cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians, including Muslim visitations to the shrines of Christian saints, and consultation of soothsayers by Christians.
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Suleyman was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1952 and immegrated to Germany in 1980.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048217
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1048217%23
Publisher:Mikael Oez
SOAS, University of London
Subject:Narrative
Turoyo language
English language
Subject (ISO639):tru
eng
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DateStamp:  2017-06-22
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Citation: Suleyman Agirman (consultant). 2016-09-01. Mikael Oez.
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