Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. General Rules: 1. The deities and the creation; 2. Various spirits; 3. Sun, moon and stars; cosmography; 4. The priestess and the 'sacred language'; 5. Some objects used in ceremonies; 6. Komburongoh; 7. Lustral water; 8. Sogit (Sagit); 9. The soul; 10. Mononglumaag; 11. Birth; 12. The giving of names; 13. Marriage and divorce; 14. 'Incest'; 15. The widow and the widower; 16. Father-in-law, mother-in-law; 17. Death and burial; 18. The Dusun month; 19. Kaasaban (thunder tabus); 20. Guardian stones and other ponungolig; 21. Sacred animals; 22. Omens and omen animals; 23. Kopohunan (koi-imah-imah); 24. Krointod; 25. The new house; 26. Ragang numak. The dispersal of the Dusuns; 27. 'Hot rain'; 28. The lampadak tree; 29. Various beliefs and customs; Part II. Ceremonies: Introduction; 1. Agricultural ceremonies; 2. Communal ceremonies; 3. Personal ceremonies; Part III. Folk-Stories: Introduction; 1. The creation and the misdoings of Towadakon; 2. A creation story; 3. A creation story; 4. A heretical creation story; 5. Another creation story from Tambatuon; 6. A Kahung Saraiyoh creation story; 7. A Toburon creation story; 8. Kinorohingan's sons; 9. Two stories of how the rice got its husk; 10. Ginjan goes to heaven; 11. Galamon learns a lesson; 12. The Dusun Pandora's box; 13. The Puran Tanak's revenge; 14. The half boy; 15. A Rogon Gaiyoh steals children; 16. The Bubutan's child; 17. Rokian's children; 18. The Bugang and the Boy; 19. Sumandak loses her rice-souls; 20. The little girl's rice-soul; 21. My ancestor Turikon; 22. The men who went to sunrise; 23. The incestuous stars of morning and evening; 24. The origin of two contellations: the Miasau-Pisau; 25. The eclipse of the moon; 26. The rice-planters' stars; 27. Saraban; 28. Takuluk fights the wind; 29. The flood; 30. Sagatapon and her fish; 31. The head that revenged itself; 32. The effects of a mogindalan; 33. The Tonsimongs' priestess; 34. Baiaboh's devotion; 35. Oduk Minatob intervenes; 36. The origin of Tindihan Hill; 37. The origin of Kuog Hill; 38. The war of the Koruk-fish against Kinsiraban; 39. The house that became a stone; 40. The house that became a boulder; 41. The tunnel to Tenghilan; 42. The orang-utang at Kahung Saraiyoh; 43. The rats' village; 44. The buffalo's children; 45. The mosquitoes' village; 46. Where the fish live; 47. The boy, the python, and the birds; 48. The bee wife; 49. Gimbak visits the villages of the dead and of the wild pigs; 50. Tambatuon 'history'. Affairs at Ragang Nunuk, etc.; 51. Kadamaian 'history': the migration from Ragang Nunuk, the huge snake, etc.; 52. The Surun people make a ladder to heaven; 53. The Surun people's ladder. The Bugang's bones; 54. The old people and the new people; 55. The 'history' of the Tabilong Dusuns; 56. The Tabilong Dusuns may not plough; 57. The Kurap bird; 58. The origin of the clam; 59. Don't be greedy and jealous; 60. Brothers dog and crocodile; 61. The coconut-shell child; 62. Putar and the eggs; 63. The upas tree; 64. Lantibong's return; 65. A story against the Mohammedans; Appendix A. Kadamaian Dusun rites: texts, translations, notes; Appendix B. The Moginakan gurumpot held at Kahung Saraiyoh in May and June, 1949; Index.

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This 1953 volume describes the Dusun people of the Tempasuk region in what was formerly North Borneo.