支格阿鲁

[Ziwo Lama]

Dear David,

Zhige'ar, with several various names such as Zhige'alu, Chige'alu, and so on, is an epic of Yi, which is definitely not recently-invented one. I heard the story of Zhige'alu when I was still in my elementary school (told by one of my aunts). But I somehow doubt this epic might be related to Tibetan's Gesar  格萨尔 and Mongolian's Gesir 格斯尔. Most scholars now believe that the Mongolian's epic  Gesir is derived from Tibetan's. Probably the Yi's may have the same origin with the Tibetan's, too, but I don't have any study about their relationship. At least, one can guess from the similarity of their pronunciations. And the most important thing is that all of them have very similar story.

Best regards,

Ziwo

On Monday, April 21, 2014 6:43 AM, David Bradley <D.Bradley at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
 
Dear Ziwo,

Can you help him?

Or is this just a recently-invented Nuosu equivalent for Gesar?

Are you coming to the ST conference in Kunming in October? We will have four days of workshops on language endangerment 20-23 October, hope you can come to those too.

How is your work going?

Best regards,

david

Prof David Bradley FASSA FAHA
Linguistics
La Trobe University VIC 3086
Australia
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Subject: 支格阿鲁

Dear Colleagues,

I am interested to know more about the Nosu mythological figure who is called in Chinese 支格阿鲁. He seems to be something of a pop icon, with even a movie based on his story. But I am having trouble finding whether his legend is actually published in Nosu and whether there is any serious academic literature about his legend, whether in Chinese or other languages.

Thank you,
Nathan
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