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Anthropos, 45.1950,4-6

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Titel:: Anthropos

Untertitel:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Weitere Titel:: Anthropos

Erscheinungsort:: Fribourg

Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 45.1950,4-6

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1950

Signatur:: LA 1118-45,4-6

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 45, 1950, Heft 4-6

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Titel:: Mythological Fragments from the Small Islands near Madang (New Guinea)

Sonstige Person:: Aufinger, Albert

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Mythological Fragments from the Small Islands near Madang (New Guinea). 783 chores. The fairest one entered the dwelling where the youth was hid. She searched for the kettle, and finally located it under the sheath of the palm leaf. She drew the kettle out from beneath the sheath, wondering the while who could have put it in such a place. As the girl pushed the sheath to one side she was encircled by the powerful arms of the youth, who had been lying unobserved on the upper platform of the house. The girl twisted and turned, but to no avail. The man was the stronger of the two. The other maidens throughout the village heard the commotion inside the house, and in stark terror they fled back to the safety of the pandanus and were changed back into their original forms. But the beautiful maiden, in the clutches of the youth, tried to escape by changing her appearance. At first she turned into a mouse, then into a spider, finally into a lizard. But the man would not let the girl go. “I won’t let you go free again”, he told her. “You must turn into a beautiful maiden again and I will marry you.” At once in place of the lizard stood the lovely maiden. That evening the owner of the house came home from work and found the door open. But since he was in on the scheme he said nothing 8 . Entering the house he saw the youth, and the maiden trying to hide her face on his breast. The young man described how he had succeeded in cap turing the beautiful creature. To which the other replied : “You’ve done well.” When the rest of the people of the village arrived home and saw the unfamiliar girl, they said, “Who is this ? We have never seen such a beautiful girl in any of the villages.” The boy explained to the people how he had won the girl. Then he took her into his father’s house as his bride. In the course of time the young wife bore her husband a little son. Some years elapsed. Then one day when the boy’s mother went back to work in the gardens, she entrusted the child to the care of its grandmother in her absence. But the boy was a self-willed little fellow and paid no attention to the commands of its grandmother. Then the old lady became angry and scolded the child. “You don’t listen to me,” she said, “because you do not have human blood in your veins. It is pandanus blood.” The boy said nothing, but that night he asked his mother, “Mother, who are your parents ? Where is your native village ?” The question made the mother angry and she scolded the boy. Then he told her why he had asked the question. The mother was much embarrassed 9 . The next day when her husband asked her why she did not go to work she lied to him, “I cannot go today. I am sick. I want the child to stay with me too.” All the people went to work in the gardens except the mother and 8 Otherwise the owner of the house would certainly have sounded an alarm had someone broken into the house in his absence and left it standing open. When the people leave their homes for a longer period they barricade the doorways with palm leaf matting and crossbars. 9 It was a grave insult to the mother to be reminded of her non-human origin. This theme is found often and in many variations among the myths of the islands near Madang. In a previous article I recorded another example of it. Cf. Albert Aufinger. Eine erklärende Mythe zu den "prähistorischen” Keramikfunden im Madang-Gebiet (Anthropos, XXXIV, 1939, pp. 396-402, especially page 402, note 34).

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