{"id":207,"date":"2009-03-11T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgeonedev.com\/aprilsblog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-02-17T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:38:13","slug":"chigwaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Chigwaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=332\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-332\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-332\" title=\"endie-makope\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/endie-makope-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"endie-makope\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/endie-makope-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/endie-makope-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/endie-makope.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We learned Chigwaya from Endiby Makope.\u00a0 This is a song that I requested. \u00a0 He talked first a little bit about the meaning of the song which is played for the njuzu spirits:<\/p>\n<p>Chigwaya is about the bream type of fish (has more bones) http:\/\/www.aquariumlife.net\/profiles\/african-cichlids\/bream\/100083.asp for a photo.\u00a0 Used to bring the mermaid spirits in a ceremony meant for the mermaids. \u00a0 Deep meaning.\u00a0 Specially endowed mediums have a mermaid spirit. \u00a0 They are powerful, often herbalists.\u00a0 Very clean from living in the water. \u00a0 There are no male mermaids.<\/p>\n<p>There are specific things that happen in a water ceremony which I won&#8217;t relate here. I loved the song immediately. \u00a0 Endiby is a good teacher. We learned the kushaura easily and then the kutsinhira which had nice subtle highline variations.\u00a0 We worked hard until dinner learning and singing the words and then after dinner playing hosho and learning a little more of a variation in the kushaura.<\/p>\n<p>I fell asleep after dinner and missed part of this.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t sleep the night before and finally got up for coffee at 3:00 a.m.\u00a0 John and Jim both had really unsettled dreams with high anxiety.\u00c2\u00a0 This song became very soothing.\u00a0 I decided to stay at Bushbaby the next day to practice it and stay with my own water spirit which was responding well to this new song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned Chigwaya from Endiby Makope.\u00a0 This is a song that I requested. \u00a0 He talked first a little bit about the meaning of the song which is played for the njuzu spirits: Chigwaya is about the bream type of fish (has more bones) http:\/\/www.aquariumlife.net\/profiles\/african-cichlids\/bream\/100083.asp for a photo.\u00a0 Used to bring the mermaid spirits in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}