In the Maubise village of Tartehi, each year in March or April traditional 'new year' rituals are carried out to honour and recreate relationships and alliances across time and space. This annual agricultural ceremony continues over three days and includes a harvest festival, a new year celebration and a ceremony carried out at sacred springs Ermata and Ertama to ritually 'cool' the community. Honouring ancestral connections, it begins with people across the valley gathering at Tartehi sacred house complex where ritual drumming and sacred narrative accounts are told by elders to those present well into the night. Over the subsequent days as the number of people gathered continues to swell, the group set off on a circular procession through the landscape meeting up with the custodians of particular sacred sites along the way. In total they carry out celebratory rituals and offerings at seven sites, culminating in a ceremony at two ritually paired male and female springs (understood as the origins or sources of the community).
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Iha bee matan Ermatu, iha Tartehi, Maubisi, tinan-tinan komunidade sira halo rituál "aihuka". Ne'e rituál ida ne'ebé atu kompleta rituál sau to'os ka mambiuka ne'e. Rituál ida ne'e rasik nu'udar prosesu ida atu komunidade hotu la'o tuir fali bee-matan hotu ne'ebé iha knua laran hodi husu agradesimentu ba bei'ala sira nomós espíritu sira ne'ebé hein bee ne'e. Rituál aihuka ne'e mak rohan husi rituál sau to'os no piut besi. Iha Suco Maubisi, liu-liu ba knua Tartehi, Lekitehi no Goulala hala'o rituál aihuka ne'e iha bee-matan Ermatu no Ertama. Komunidade sira sei la'o husi knua laran no ba dahuluk sei bá bee-matan Ermatu ne'ebé iha fatin lulik ida naran 'Helumau Aitir Ermata nor Usnei'. Kondisaun uniku ida husi bee-matan hotu iha Sub distrito Maubisi ne'e mak bee-matan hotu-hotu iha bee-matan feto no bee-matan mane [1]. Klasifikasaun bee-matan feto no bee-matan mane hodi halo tuir tradisaun fase matan nian. Bainhira labarik mane ida moris mai mak iha loron hitu tuirmai sei fase bebé nia matan ho bee ne'ebé kuru iha bee-matan mane ne'e. Nune'e mós ba labarik feto ida, mak bee ne'ebé uza ba fase matan sei kuru husi bee-matan feto (Tetum text by by Demetrio do Amaral Carvalho)


[1] Bee-matan feto no bee-matan mane fisikamente konstrui husi bei'ala sira ho hada fatuk hanesan tanki ka posu ki'ik ne'ebé ikusmai sira temi ida nu'udar bee-matan feto no ida seluk nu'udar bee-matan mane.