Sunday, 25 August 2013

Creation of Man according to the Inhabitants of Noo-hoo-roa

The inhabitants of Noo-hoo-roa, in the Kei Islands, say that their ancestors were fashioned out of clay by the supreme god, Dooadlera, who breathed life into the clay figures.
Frazer, James George, Folk-lore in the Old Testament, Macmillan, 1918, vol. 1, pp. 12-13.



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