Sama, Central - gangan

gangan

‘food’ a dessert porridge.

This sweet porridge is made of squash, sugar and coconut milk.

Bang kalang heya pisan-na, maka niballa maka gatah maka sokal, on-na "gangan".

If the/its squash slices are large, and are cooked with coconut milk and sugar, it is called gangan .

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‘cooking terms’ to make sweet-squash-soup dessert.

Nganggangan kitabi sangom ili.

Let's make sweet-squash-soup dessert tonight.

Bang niyah, konoh, aley matey, bohoh masi mayat ma lumah, mbal kajari nganggangan, basa pabungkal mayat mangan sinabu mandusiya magtulihan.

If there is, they say, a person [who] died, but his corpse is still in the house, [it is] not possible to make sweet-squash dessert- soup, because the corpse will arise and eat while the people sleep. [The Samals believe the corpse will kill anyone who sees it.]

They say, if there is a dead person in the house lying in repose waiting for burial, it is forbidden to make sweet-squash dessert because if you do, when everyone goes to sleep, the deceased will get up and eat, and if anyone wakes and sees the deceased, the deceased person will kill him.