Mindanaw mythology
parts of each person (pp. 209-210)
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name |
meaning |
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(p. 209) lowoh |
physical body |
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remogor |
soul/life |
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meginalew |
spirit |
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ferenawa |
breath, "visualized as a kind of string. When a person died, the breath-string was cut" {cf. [Hellenic] thread of the Moirai} |
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? (p. 210) |
"umbilical-cord-twin" = conductor of soul of the dead -- "They crossed together a cosmic bridge that separated the Realm of the Dead from the Realm of the Mountaintops" |
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"choice" |
"they died when they had chosen to die, in the manner they had also chosen" {? via karman} |
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(p. 221) "gall bladder" |
"mind" |
cosmic realms (ined), going eastward -- shaman had "been there" (p. 211), "had traveled it" in dreams (p. 218)
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page |
# |
name of realm |
its divine denizens |
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p. 203 |
0th |
keilawan "human" |
segoyon "caretakers" of: Fire; Bamboo; Rattan; Spirit of Rice |
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p. 206 |
Little Green Women -- pygmy-sized, green-bodied, green-clad, green-haired -- around strangler-fig trees |
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1st |
rasak "swamp" |
Swamp Spirits -- human-sized, back-bodied, black-haired, black-clad, caretakers of wild swine -- "attempting to seduce" humans sexually (p. 48) |
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p. 206 |
water-spring spirit couples |
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p. 207 |
2nd |
esudon "mountain-top" |
Mountain Dwellers -- short, glistening-bodied, variegated-clad |
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p. 208 |
3rd |
tembas "the dead" |
Bay Bongo` & her 4 sistren |
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p. 211 |
4th |
alagasi "Giants" |
Giants -- large, white-bodied, "were the husbands of the Little Green Women" |
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p. 212-213 |
5th |
(p. 212) kawayan "great mounatins" |
(p. 213) 5 spirit-siblings = 4 men & a woman -- "where the path met and passed through the sky." |
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p. 213 |
most southerly mountain |
"Caretaker of Those Who Die Taking Blood Revenge" = red-clad kris-carrier -- "where souls of males who died in acts of revenge dwelt." |
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river |
crimson-colored r. |
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next mtn. to north |
female Caretaker of Avengers -- "where souls of women who died taking vengeance went." |
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p. 214 |
next mtn. |
Caretaker of Suicides -- green-clad |
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river |
deep green r. |
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northerly mtn. |
Caretaker of Drowned Mockers (scil., of animals) |
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northernmost mtn. |
Caretaker of Struck (scil., by "lightning") Mockers (scil., of animals) |
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p. 216 |
mountain on main path |
Malan Batunan in "a house that was a huge as he was" |
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p. 218 |
6th |
lefinon "delight" |
"Teduray ... who had been led beyond the sky by ... Lagey Sebotan." |
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7th |
fute^ fantad "white soil" {cf. [Bod.] sa-skya} |
"Teduray who were led beyond the sky by Lagey Lengkuwos." |
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8th |
telaki "messenger" |
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[9th] |
Tulus (p. 80) |
p. 207 Region of the Great Spirit, who passeth summons to Messenger Spirits, who in turn relay it via Mountain Dwellers to a shaman (in dream) |
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p. 217 |
"The Great Spirit was a helper, a friend, and an adviser" {cf. [Akan] god Nyame "friend"} -- "soft ferns"; "the dewdrops ring like little bells." "Beautiful, harmless lightning continually strikes the houses, but there is never any thunder ... From roof to roof of every house rainbows always glisten" {cf. Vajra-yana} |
p. 218 "told in the long, epic chant called the Berinarew"
realms in other directions
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page |
direction |
realm |
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pp. 211-212 |
(p. 211) west |
(p. 212) Cruel Giants -- "they hunted humans with dogs and then ate their souls." (cf. p. 219) -- they inspired "false shamans", who were misled and then destroyed by Malan Batunan (p. 219) |
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p. 219-220 |
(p. 219) south |
(p. 220) Flying Souls: good ones healed ailments by restoring a patient's stolen liver |
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p. 221 |
north |
disease-spirits: measles, malaria, cholera, tropical boils |
is this description of a hollow square world, as in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?
4 successive (p. 80) creations of humanity by deities
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page |
# |
description |
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p. 81 |
1st |
husband birthed the babies {seahorse?}, wife suckled them |
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p. 81 |
2nd |
"slash between the woman's legs"; bolo-handle between man's |
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p. 82 |
elopement of white man & white woman to Sun-Sun {cf. Sing-Sing} |
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"Lagey Lengkuwos led all theTeduray people on a great journey to relocate in theland of the Great Spirit." |
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3rd |
creation of another human race to replace on earth the one which had migrated to beyond the sky |
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"Lagey Sebotan ... used the Berinarew as a guide to replicate Lagey Lengkuwaos's feat of leading the people beyond the sky." |
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4th |
creation of another human race to replace on earth the one which had migrated to beyond the sky |
{cf. the Nas.uray/Manda< myth of most of them having migrated beyond Qaf to the other-world, leaving a mere on earth}
Stuart A. Schlegel: Wisdom from a Rainforest. U. of GA Pr, Athens, 1998. [Teduray of southwestern Mindanaw]