Tlie Folk-Tah's oj titc Kiwai l'apuans. 43 



X. TALES CONNECTED WITH CEREMONIES (279-290). 



HOW THE MOGURU CEREMONY WAS INAUGURATED. 



279. The mythical Marünonogere tried to perform the luognru with various kincis of 

 things before he created the wild boar which thenceforth was a pHncipal feature in the rites. 

 Against Marünogere's order the pig was killed by one of his men, and after that everybody must 

 die. Marönogere bored a hole where the women's sexual organs are and poured some blood of 

 the pig into the opening. He taught the people the sexual act. Certain people have grown up 

 from Worms which formed in the pig's blood. 



HOW THE DUDI^WOMEN GOT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOGURU. 



280. Some Diidi people, unable to find a wild pig to use at the nwgiiru, caught a tame 

 pig and brought it fully decorated into the men's house. The woman who owned the pig did 

 not know what had been done with it and calied it, in order to give it food. The pig wrenched 

 itself free and ran to her, wearing its ornaments. Then the men killed all the women who had 

 seen the pig by burying them alive in a deep hole. The man were killed by the Ki'wais who 

 had heard of the incident. 



THE PUNISHMENT OF THE DAVARE PEOPLE WHO LET OUT THE SECRET 



OF THE MOGURU. 



281. One of the „new men" at his initiation in the Dtogiirti gave the women a hint 

 of the secret. The men summoned some Kiwai people to kill all the women who had heard of 

 the mogüru. 



A SIMILAR PUNISHMENT OF THE WIORUBI PEOPLE. 



282. A man committed violence upon a girl and in order to make her keep silence he 

 promised to teil her about the mogüru. She told another girl what she had heard, and the people 

 got to know that the two had been let into the secret. The man and both girls were killed, and 

 after a time the other Kiwais came and killed many of the VVi()rubi people who had not guarded 

 the secret better. 



THE ORIGIN OF THE TURTLE CEREMONY. 



28.3 — 284. A man saw two stones coming towards him in the water, and in the night 

 they appeared to him in a dream and taught him the turtle ceremony, in which the stones are 

 used. — A man found a stone in a place indicated to him in a dream. 

 N:o 1. 



