MALAY PENINSULA FLOOD STORY
Benua-Jakun (Malay Peninsula):
The ground we stand on is merely a skin covering an abyss of water.
Long ago, Pirman, the deity, broke up this skin, flooding and destroying the world.
However, Pirman had created a man and woman and placed them in a completely closed ship of pulai wood.
When at last this ship came to rest, the couple nibbled their way out through its side, and they saw land stretching to the horizon in all directions.
The sun had not yet been created, so it was dark; when it grew light, they saw seven small rhododendron shrubs and seven clumps of sambau grass.
The couple bemoaned their lack of children, but in time the woman conceived in the calves of her legs, a male child coming from the right calf and a female from the left.
That is why offspring from the same womb may not marry.
All of mankind is descended from that first pair.
[Gaster, p. 99]
Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row, New York, 1969. (Most of the flood stories in this work are taken from Frazer, 1919.)
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Kelantan (Malay Peninsula):
One day a feast was made for a circumcision, during which all manner of beasts were pitted to fight one another.
The last fight was between dogs and cats. During this fight, a great flood came down from the mountains, drowning everyone except two or three menials who had been sent to the hills to gather firewood.
Then the:
- sun
- moon
- stars
were extinguished.
When light returned, there was no land, and all the abodes of men had been overwhelmed.
[Gaster, p. 99]
MALAY PENINSULA FLOOD STORY
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