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Chewong Myths and Legends

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Chewong Myths and Legends

SKU: M11 | Year: 1982 | Pages: 136

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Orthography
  • Glossary
  • Part I: Origins
    • Creation of the first humans
    • How the Chewong were taught to behave properly
    • How the Chewong got fire and other cultural artifacts
    • Earth Six
    • How Tohan remakes Earth Seven
    • How the Malays came to Malaya
    • How the jungle people lost their ability to read and write
    • How the sun lost her children
    • How tigers came to eat humans
    • Tohan’s knife
    • Tanko
  • Part II: Hidden Identities
    • A: Humans Wearing Animal, Plant, or Ugly Cloak
    • The spider man
    • The snake husband
    • The mango man
    • The monitor lizard man
    • The girl with a squirrel cloak
    • Chan Med-kato o The wasp in the stone
    • Bongso Lanogn
    • Ta’ Prasam
    • B: Animals or Plants Wearing Human Cloak
    • The porcupine woman
    • The palm heart woman
    • The frog woman
    • The jilaegen woman
    • The monkey wife
    • The pandanus woman
    • Ta’ Tayog and Komai Bill
    • The taba man
    • C: Humans Born in Animal Cloak
    • The siamang child
    • The crab child
  • Part III: Harmful Beings
    • A: Original Non-human Beings
    • How bas were made
    • The deer ghost
    • The totn fruit woman
    • Ta’ Kae
    • Ya’ Popag
    • The toad “ghosts”
    • B: Metamorphorsed Humans
    • The man who became bas
    • Grandfather’s ghost
    • Ta’ Tatrahoi
    • The cockroach people
    • The man who became tiger
    • The man who became dog
  • Part IV: Rules
    • Snake talaiden
    • Snake talaiden
    • Storm talaiden
    • Siamang with binturong talaiden
    • Tiger talaiden
    • Pre fruit punen
    • The bear man who ate alone
    • The goll tree ghost
    • Tiger punen
    • The man who slept with his daughter-in-law
    • The mouse-deer
    • When the moon fell down
  • Part V: Bongso Legends
    • The elephant who abducted a girl
    • Bongso and the elephants
    • The ghost under the rambutan tree
    • The bats which carried Bongso to the sea
    • Bongso who saved the child
    • The star that married Bongso
    • Bongso Halog
    • The macaque
    • Bongso who went to Earth Six for fruit
    • Bujaegen Komarr
    • The moskin who fell from Earth Six
    • Bongso who was brought up by the snakes
    • Bongso Panchaw
    • The ghost who took her daughter’s ruwai
  • Part VI: Miscellanous
    • Ta’ Tahala of the Man with the sharp penis
    • The man who wised to see a live tiger
    • The Batak
    • The turtle king
  • Illustrations
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography

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