First Woman of the Ngaju Creation Myth
Dayak · mortal · primordial / creation · Recorded classification
Kameloh Putak Bulau Janjulen Karangan is the first woman of the Ngaju Dayak creation narrative. With the first man she bears three sons — Maharaja Sangiang, Maharaja Sangen, and Maharaja Bunu — whose divergent fates account for the origin of the upperworld spirit beings and of mortal humanity.
Children
- Ancestor of Mortal Humankind
- Ancestor of the Sangen Heroic Beings
- Ancestor of the Sangiang Spirit Beings
Domains
- primordial humanity
Powers
- to give birth to the ancestors of spirits and of humankind
Relations
- subordinate to: Upperworld GodLike the first man, she exists by the will of the supreme god of the upperworld.Schärer, Hans. Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. (secondary)
- spouse: First Man of the Ngaju Creation MythWife of the first man Manyamei Tunggul Garing and mother of the three primordial brothers.Schärer, Hans. Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. (secondary)
Sources
- Kameloh Putak Bulau is the first woman of Ngaju Dayak cosmogony and mother of the three primordial brothers.: Schärer, Hans. Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People, trans. Rodney Needham. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. (secondary); Schiller, Anne. Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (secondary)