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 24 Aug 2012 @ 06:02
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The Children of the Limokon - Mandaya (Mindanao)
In the very early days before there were any people on the earth, the limokon (a kind of dove ) were very powerful and could talk like men though they looked like birds. One limokon laid two eggs, one at the mouth of the Mayo River and one farther up its course. After some time these eggs hatched, and the one at the mouth of the river became a man, while the other became a woman. More >
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21 Aug 2012 @ 07:14
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Origin - Bagobo (Mindanao)
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were old enough, the boy and the girl went far away across the waters seeking a good place to live in. Nothing more was heard of them until their children, the Spaniards and Americans, came back. More >
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19 Aug 2012 @ 09:08
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The Story of the Creation - Bilaan (Mindanao)
In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when he sat on the clouds, which were his home, he occupied all the space above. His teeth were pure gold, and because he was very cleanly and continually rubbed himself with his hands, his skin became pure white. The dead skin which he rubbed off his body was placed on one side in a pile, and by and by this pile became so large that he was annoyed and set himself to consider what he could do with it. More >
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18 Aug 2012 @ 05:50
Ra, messenger & teacher, from the Darjeeling Council (1st Ray, Enlightened Power), forthcoming Guardian, will focus certain human endowments in this note. People may ask about what happens next when all communications facilities break down, so this note will partly clarify that. More >
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17 Aug 2012 @ 07:47
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How the Moon and the Stars Came to Be - Bukidnon (Mindanao)
One day in the times when the sky was close to the ground a spinster went out to pound rice. Before she began her work, she took off the beads from around her neck and the comb from her hair, and hung them on the sky, which at that time looked like coral rock. More >
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10 Aug 2012 @ 06:02
Ra, messenger & teacher, staff/member at the Darjeeling Council, forthcoming Guardian, will focus on the state of anarchy that will happen right at the inception of Ascension on December 21 up through the turbulent weeks, months, years ahead. As already shared previously, the turbulence will move on till the entire 2018, with relative calm episodes within the period. More >
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7 Aug 2012 @ 07:30
Among the many indigenous peoples in Indonesia and Malaysia there are several examples of dual gods and sometimes of trinities. In Sumatra, the Toba Batak see the Absolute Mula Jadi na Bolon as three persons representing the upper, middle, and lower worlds. More >
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5 Aug 2012 @ 06:30
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The cosmogonic myths thus far discussed are derived from western and central Indonesia; and we may now turn to the eastern portion of this area, where another type appears, albeit the available material is exceedingly scanty. More >
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1 Aug 2012 @ 05:56
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The origin-legends of the north-west Borneo tribes are related to the type of cosmogonic myth which has just been considered in that they set forth belief in a primeval sea and in the important part played by birds, although they imply something more of a direct creation. More >
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31 Jul 2012 @ 05:35
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One more version may be given, that from the Karo Battak, who, like the Dairi, live north of the Toba. According to this, Batara Guru, the heaven deity, and his wife, who was the daughter of the divinity of the underworld, full of sorrow at their childlessness, determined to try the effect of penance in poverty and seclusion, and accordingly went to live in a little hut by the sea.... More >
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