Kestene Pene Hobo

A Great Grandmother's Narrative Tradition

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SONGLINE: Bahçalarda Kestane

YER: Batumi ~ Georgia, Borçka | Artvin ~ Türkiye

>>> cultural heritage, georgian-laz roots, inter-generational wisdom, narrative tradition

0064 kestene | 1:06 | 2 May 2021

>>> chain-linked item | cultural heritage : familial

Not much to say here, other than this being a passage that was passed down onto me by my mother, from that funny >>> great-grandmother who wrote the poem about a spinster's pubic hairs turning white. I don't know why or how I remembered the passage, but it was a record of how the material side of the family spoke a hybrid blend of Georgian that was pickled with Laz & Turkish. As they also spoke Russian & Bulgarian, I suspect variations & dialects of this phrase might've travelled all the way to Romania (and who knows where else?!). The relay for this is likely to end with me because I couldn't pass it down, so that's why I captured it here, in case there's another skipped generation that can continue to pass on the baton. I've provided the clues in terms of locations and languages to triangulate the sound and wish you will on the journey of trying to work out what it means, because my great-grandmother was kind of naughty.

~ My Name Is Ayça, get used to it

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