Borneo's Dayak handicraft, the beauty of ancient tribal arts and handmade crafts
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The notion of the fertilizing murder is here associated with the original death. In addition, the dragon goddess is considered the most powerful protector of the humans, and she is widely invoked in everyday life and represented in traditional arts.

Traditional Life: Of Gods and Men


The cosmos, for some groups, consists of three parts: the upperworld and underworld, both further divided into several distinct layers, and a middleworld where mankind lives. Other groups consider only two parts, an upperworld for the gods and a lowerworld for the humans.

After the creation was completed, the skies and the seas parted and the upperworld god (the supreme deity) retreated to his now remote realm and no longer interferes much, at least directly, with current human affairs. To communicate with him, men either invokes the god's more accessible wife or relies on messengers - the divine birds - or on human mediums - the priests - and seeks indications of the god's will through omens and augury. Conversely, the underworld goddess has remained close to the humans and is associated with the earth, agriculture, and fertility in general.

The Dusun goddess killed her own daughter in order to create edible plants for mankind. The notion of the fertilizing murder is here associated with the original death. In addition, the dragon goddess is considered the most powerful protector of the humans, and she is widely invoked in everyday life and represented in traditional arts. Beneath the pair of high gods minor deities are assigned specific functions, like protecting the house or helping the hunter. Such is the trio of Land Dayak gods, reminiscent of the Hindu Trimurti.

Art in traditional life: People at home, Household arts and crafts, Clothes and textiles, Personal adornment, The wider world, The fields, River and forest, Trade, War, headhunting, and sacrifice, Traditional religion, Of Gods and men, Life and ritual, Sickness and shamanism, Death and funeral art, Primary funerals, Secondary funerals, The living and the death.