Celebes Islands Creation Legends
- Celebes Islands Creation Legends
The
Melanesian Toradja tribe have a story that after the Deluge had subsided rice, their staple cereal, was salvaged and the tribe were thus enabled to survive. They have a culture hero and sun lord named
Laseo, a sky god named
Puang Matowa. The Minehassas have a culture heroine
Luminu’utt and a sun priest named
To’ar.
Who’s Who in non-classical mythology .
John Keegan.
2014.
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