The Religion of the Tempasuk Dusuns of North Borneo

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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