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The creation of the cosmos is the work of the total/ambivalent godhead. Our account of it follows the Creation Myth. In its main outlines it goes as follows: 26
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Hardeland tells of the separation of the brothers in a different way (1859, s.v. sangiang). But there is no fundamental difference between his version and the myth recorded here.
See particularly the works of Mauss (1925), Davy (1922), and de Josselin de Jong (1929). On the same phenomenon in Melanesia, see Malinowski (1922).
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Schärer, H. (1963). The Act of Divine Creation. In: Ngaju Religion. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9346-7_6
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