The strong possibility to consider is that fallen apostle Judas Iscariot (Jud), who was a Jew (Judeo Dhormacho). Jude, Judah, Judas all come from the same root). Now if Mar Judeo came before the Inquisition in Goa (1560/61-1774) then in all probability the ritual Mar Judev(o) got compounded with the latter. It could go the other way too. But then one may be able to possibly find the date the ritual began in Church or Confraeria records.
Could it also be that Jud/ev is/was also an euphemism in Konkanim. Then there are these phrases to think upon: Mar Jud, Mar Judev. Mhar Judev In the above placement, its as though the aggression builds up! Something seems to be missing. See: Mar Judevak, Mhar Judevak, Mar Judevank... Another conflation could be the Mar with Mhar (Mahar), and I would not be shocked if there is more to this. Many of our festivals albeit less obviously so, now are collaborative, so this rituals could have had similar antecedents, to mean participatory. It may have something to do with Jews, Inquisition, and Judases; while also something learnt under the banner of the Inquisition. My Grand uncle was Padre, Alvaro Lodovico Figueiredo (missionar: Karwar, Dharvar, Parish Priest of Raibandar, on radio, etc). He breathed his last at the Clergy Home in Porvorim. I am not speculating across the board but talking from my faint memory / what I heard as a child in Batim. I had a frightening memory until I was felled. But thats a another story. NOTEs: There were two Judas' among the twelve. The other was Thaddeus/Jude/Judas (patron of Hopeless causes/ ses) and a son of James. Then there is a third Judas, but nothing to do with the twelve, and encountered at a later time. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 21:10:24 +0200 > From: Alfred de Tavares <[email protected]> > To: Eric Pinto <[email protected]>, Joe GoaUk > <[email protected]>, GOANET Lists <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd > June every year > > > Eric, I think there is an inadvertant miss' infra, as our jc would say... > > Should'nt it rather be 'mar'. > > 'Mhar' is a cobbler or bamboo-worker by profession & which, lamentably, > places the group as untouchable---casteless; > > Whereas, 'mar' is (to) kill; 'mar zudev/zudev mar' thus rendering it as > kill (the) Jew. > > Although casteless, there was never any bitterness/animosity vs the shoe- > or > baset- makers, in Goa, unless, woebegone, one of them dared enter a Hindu > brahmin house through the front door, enter a Hindu temple by whichever > door or even cross the shadow of a H. brahmin, however tainted the later > may > be... > > Oh...I forgot, if the poor devil dared use a village well...he/mostly, she > was done > for. > > Chacha...trying to impress (a bit) on his knowledge of 'castology'. >
