Culture events with 5-2 Cosmology & Mythology tag

Church History with Joel

Edited May 22, 2024, 1:30 p.m. by Steve

Talking with Joel at the hauswin...

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Do you know the first words myth?

Edited May 28, 2024, 2:49 p.m. by Steve

Asking people if they know the Origin of language myth...

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Ebesil bring geneology

Edited Dec. 22, 2022, 6:02 p.m. by Steve

Sagoba and guys from Mandangus brought a genealogy. They said they want to hear about it at the teaching and were keen to see it in the computer...

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Flood and Babel story

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:01 a.m. by Steve

Sibil gives the Flood and Babel story. It comes from his Interview about origins...

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Genesis - beginning story from Nambi

Edited May 28, 2024, 2:05 p.m. by Steve

I went down to Nambi's on the Mematonn ridge to stay overnight on 25.10.23. He had told all his sons to come together that evening and Ulumo was also there with his family. Then he shared this story about God creating people and some of the first people. It seems to be a personal clan story. I am no...

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Gods of the ancestors

Edited May 28, 2024, 2:15 p.m. by Steve

Talking about the upcoming teaching a bit Sibil decided to share about the names of the gods his ancestors followed. He gave it in Tok Pisin first. The story here seems to be the same as Genesis - beginning story from Nambi...

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Ilal's tumbuna stories

Edited May 30, 2024, 2:40 p.m. by Steve

Ilal had heard that I was asking about tumbuna stories, so he came to tell me his. I only had my phone on my so the audio quality isn't as good as normal....

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Interview about origins

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:07 a.m. by Steve

1. megite tugub mee mee teen salibigot ig? (how was everything created?) 2. huwannin ebinnam nom hotugunee igugund. Megite meee huwaninn ebinnam nog asam igu ig? (what's above the sun and moon?) 3. enn holoomot humum asamtesi, yolu egee yann. Megite henee ogoo ebinnam mu yolu yab igugund? (why does ...

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Interviews about cosmology

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:12 a.m. by Steve

1. yombonn, mee mee teenn nom, wi egee hann ig? oo singelinn singelinn egee agamb mu wi egee hann ig? (will the earth end?) 2. ab heven nom. his ig? noogul ig? ab ondomboo ig wig? (is heaven real, where is it?) 3. mohis heven ilinim eb, megite mee onn egee nann ig? mohis moogom hotugunee egee tebis,...

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Knowledge from God changing the heart

Edited Oct. 20, 2023, 11:08 a.m. by Philip

This is a retelling of the candlelight service by Sivil. I played the recording to him in my office and he retold it so I could have a clear copy. Later, I checked the transcription and meaning with Samuel....

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Kobumbua myth about bird and fish

Edited May 8, 2024, 9 a.m. by Steve

22 April 2024. Guys from Kobumbua needed to tell us this story. I had to make time to get the recorder and grab this tumbuna story. It's about fish people making ships and bird people making planes. The Kovol ancestors had two guys who invented these things and left, forgetting about the bush people...

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Kovol story of first man - Tapulang

Edited May 23, 2024, 11:37 a.m. by Steve

Sitting around the fire in Soso's house telling stories. Steve May 2024. There's a list of names here. Perhaps something about a bird teaching people how to have sex and have children, and something about the origin of hunting for meat in Namsug. But it doesn't make much sense to ...

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KoyaKoya

Edited April 29, 2024, 2:26 p.m. by Steve

Asking people to talk about KoyaKoya. Text 1 happened after listening to the Kobumbua myth about bird and fish, so may reflect the group's understanding of what they said rather than their own opinion....

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Light coming to Kovol

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Steve

On Steve's overnight at Evesil the guys insisted on giving this story and having it recorded before eating. It was of obvious significance to them and they wanted to make sure I didn't miss a single word of it. They wanted to do a in tandem translation to Tok Pisin to make sure not a word was missed...

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Origin of language

Edited Jan. 31, 2024, 2:19 p.m. by Steve

Just before we announced which dialect we'd work in Kavaluku and Kasi told me a story that they seemed to think had great significance. They told me about a boy who had been born who was the first to speak in language. The first sounds he uttered were [ɑ] and [i] (these are the same syllables seen i...

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Shem, Ham and Japhet

Edited Jan. 25, 2024, 3:04 p.m. by Steve

Asking questions on how white men know how to make planes and machines Kelly afterwards talked about Shem, Ham and Japhet...

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Stories about birds and bird people

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:15 a.m. by Steve

Sibil told some old tumbuna stories about birds. These birds are bird people who seem to exist before people, and people replace them. From Interview about origins....

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Talking about creation and spirits

Edited April 9, 2024, 11:04 a.m. by Steve

Sibil started talking in Tok Pisin comparing the creation of the spirits to the creation of man...

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The myth of how people displaced animals

Edited May 22, 2024, 9:21 a.m. by Steve

After a Wanbel kaikai the Kokomua community shared this story with us. We had been saying how we were not afraid to hear their tumbuna stories and they went ahead and shared this....

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Things grow at night

Edited May 22, 2024, 8:14 a.m. by Steve

Sibil talked about a tumbuna story. It turns out it's about how plants and Things grow at night, things don't grow in the heat of the sun. I was after a creation story, but this isn't one. From Interview about origins...

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Tumbuna story and apology

Edited May 23, 2024, 12:27 p.m. by Steve

A text from Philip. Steve May 2024 It seems they are just concerned that there was bad talk between two old myths and one went away and they want to apologise for it. No detail is given that would help us make sense of what this is. It seems to be an Ingis thing. I've not heard atamalagum ilol or ...

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Where is hulum sindee?

Edited May 27, 2024, 8:32 a.m. by Steve

Hulum sindee is where the tumbuna say man was created. Where is it?...

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Who is Egembee?

Edited May 29, 2024, 12:26 p.m. by Steve

Sibil mentions Egembee in Gods of the ancestors. I asked who that is....

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Who is Sigol?

Edited Jan. 31, 2024, 2:26 p.m. by Steve

Asking people who Sigol and Peme are. Sigol seems to be the first person to speak Imengis and is set in the mythological (but not that long ago!) past....

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Who is Unemi?

Edited May 27, 2024, 8:56 a.m. by Steve

Unemi, Mooboogul and Wegil have been mentioned as creating man in the tumbuna stories. Genesis - beginning story from Nambi. I asked who they were as they were active before people are made. I'm told they are hubi...

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