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Legend - Butterfly - guest fall in love
with a - mother Buttfly [[Butterfly]] - she has 12 eggs -
She cannot lay eggs - bird from the maple
[[strikethrough]] egg [[/strikethrough]] tree - lays the eggs for the butterfly's
God of Lightng [[Lightning]] - Butterfly is the goddess of 
everything - leg
- [[strikethrough]] E [[/strikethrough]] Imagery of the legend is represented
in embroidiary and batik art work.
- spiritual and ancestors

[[left margin]] Guzang [[/left margin]]

- Biggest celebration - celebrated every 12 years.
Offers of animals and food.
- Drum songs - after return to community - eating and drinking

[[left margin]] GUZANG [[/left margin]]

- During the festival - no violence ad [[and]] curse wodes [[words]]
- Environmental = everything stops - deaths are celebrated after festival
- Festival is celebrated differently - for 9 days
- Festival ancestor - gives [[?]]
- South west - primitive - total worship
- miao - serious - rituals ad [[and]] ancestoral celebration
- Banners
- 2 sides festivals - 1. holy
                      2. secural
- MIAO - Herd migration - total respect for festival for ancestors

[[left margin]] Huang [[/left margin]]

- own individual language - legends, history is presented through art

[[right margin]] *Huang - everything is spiritual 
- Yang - speaks - Miao people believe - 3 spirits - [[/right margin]]

*Audience questions - Flags - Huang translate - Yang answers
Huang - Religion - different from western world primitive religions

Transcription Notes:
butterfly; not butterfly's