Guembri

Houmar — red

Sidi Hammu

Also: Sidi Hamou / Sidi Hamu. The cohort-leading saint of the Houmar (red spirits, associated with butchers and blood). Cited in Wikipedia's Gnawa-music article and on IEMed's Gnawa overview; recorded on multiple festival lila documents.

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Lyrics(1 variant)

Original (العربية) · transliteration · English

  1. Variant 1

    Al Sur — Maîtres du Guembri Vol. IV (Baldassarre, 1996)

    Baldassarre, Antonio — liner-note translations; M’allem Sam & M’allem Hmidah (performance)

    Medium confidence

    Central song in the Bel Ahmar (Red) suite of the Casablanca-school Tréq Beidaoui — Pacha Hammou is named both as the saint and the Master of the Slaughterhouse. French + English from the Al Sur booklet; Arabic original not provided.

    1. Verse

      • Let God be with the Pacha Hammou

      • God gives the healing

      • Hammou the Saint, the Master of the Slaughterhouse

      • There is no other god but God

      • I beg of you, Master of the Slaughterhouse

      • You, who eats meat and bones

        — The Hammou cycle's symbolism is around the slaughterer's intimacy with animal heat / blood — the saint as healer-by-proximity-to-the-cut.

      • You, the butcher

      • You, who slaughters during the day

      • You, who has big knives

      • Them, they want to drink the blood that You spill

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Phase 1 catalog — variants pulled from public sources for comparison; pending maâlem verification.