Like some others of you I recently saw this post on the Manchu-Study  
list. I was intrigued by this reference to "Sewe."  Is there some way  
to put this into a research perspective?  What could be meant here by  
"Sewe"?  What word meaning "god" is like "sewe"?  Is there a shamanic  
arcane?  Makes sense, I just don't know of research on this.

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> I currently live in Kobe Japan. Where I am trying to dig up the past.
> Accourding to Manchurian Historian of the Qing. The Japanese upon
> fleeing Manchuria had taken many documents and also many Manchurian
> Family and brought them back to Japan. I am trying to hurt these
> documents out and the people. Also what I know of my native Language
> there are in total of 4 dialects of Manchurian each only a little
> different. The oldest of the four is Nanai (Henzhen); mainly spoken
> amoung the Nanai living in Russia. The second is called Sewe meaning
> God this is spoken by maybe a total of 15 people; this language is an
> arcadic and is used only amoung Shamans. The third is Jurchen which is
> in many way the most Eastern branch of Manchurian a mix of Nanai and
> Kogorryo. The fourth is Manchurian Proper used in the regions south of
> the Amur. Of the Four I am familiar with Nanai, Sewe, and Manchurian.
> The purest form of Manchurian in my opion and through my understanding
> of it is Nanai. Manchurian and Nanai are the two closest of the  
> Tungus-
> Manchu Languages.