The Creation of Animal Life: As Bilong Animal The Origin of People and Society: As Bilong Manmeri na Sosaiti

Myths are considered "true" stories about the origin of the cosmos and the nature of being; legends speak of known people - often ancestors - and past events related orally over generations; and folktales are often morality tales in the style of Aesop's fables with anthropomorphized a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pacific affairs 2010, Vol.83 (1), p.213-215
1. Verfasser: McPherson, Naomi M.
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Myths are considered "true" stories about the origin of the cosmos and the nature of being; legends speak of known people - often ancestors - and past events related orally over generations; and folktales are often morality tales in the style of Aesop's fables with anthropomorphized animal protagonists. [...] the first two words are the same word with consonant shifts between "g" and "k" and the sense of the phrase is rattling/scraping a pestle inside a hollow gourd [sel] (a characteristic action of senior men) which contains lime powder [kambang] chewed with betel nut.
ISSN:0030-851X
1715-3379