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33. At UÜO creek some boys were playing in a small canoe, passing backvvards and 

 forwards betvveen the banks. Si'do's spirit appeared and asked to be taken över to the other side. 

 Near the other shore the boys thrust a paddle into the water, pretending to reach the bottom, 

 and said, „Road underneath, you jump outside." Sido jumped, and went right dovvn into deep 

 water. In revenge he overturned the canoe, and all the boys were drowned, but Sido transformed 

 himself into a vavoro, a kind of fish, and swam ashore. (Käku, Ipisia). 



SIDOS SPIRIT AND HIS TWIN MOTHERS (no 34—35). 



34. Sido turned into an liac, shell-fish, and was found by two women, Koumo and Ahau, 

 twin sisters who were grown together back to back. They took the shell-fish to their house and 

 cooked it, and when Köumo wanted to eat it, the liac slipped down her throat („he no fast along 

 mouth, he go through"). From eating the shell-fish she became pregnant, and soon gave birth to 

 a boy, Sido. The mother suckled him, and he grew very quickly, first he learned to tum him- 

 self över, then to crawl, then to stand up, and was soon fuU-grown.' (Nämai, Mawäta). 



A. Sido in the shape of an liae was swallowed by one of the Iwin sisters, Oumo and Asau, 

 through which the woman became pregnant, and soon bore a boy. The women and Sido stayed for 

 one day only within the enclosure of mats, where women are secluded after child-birth. In another 

 day he stood up and walked, he soon began to talk, and rapidly grew up. (Käku, Ipisia). 



B. Two other tales contain the same épisode. (Gamcja and Gibiima, Mawdta). 



35. One morning Sido went into the hush, and standing up behind a sago-palm with a 

 Sharp wooden tool in his hand, waited until his two mothers came. When they walked, the one 

 behind lifted up her legs and was carried by the one in front. Sido brought dovvn his instrument 

 between them splitting them apart („that string he break"). The one woman facing the bush ran 

 in that direction, and the other facing the village ran home. Sido took hold of the former and 

 said, „Mother, you no run away, 1 been take you out." (Nämai, Mawäta). 



A. The same épisode is told of Sido and two women, Koumo and Kàhau. (Duani, Mawäta). 



B. Two women, Oumo and S.-iu, were grown back to back as in the previous versions, and a 

 boy, whose name is not given, split them in two. The women were married to one of the leaders, 

 and when he died they were taken by another man. (Ibia, Ipisia). 



TRANSFORMATIONS OF SIDOS SPIRIT. 



36. Sidos spirit told the two women, Kimmo and Kähau, „Vou two wait, I come back 

 next moon." The spirit then left Uiio and wandered to many places. Every where Sido dug a 

 hole in the ground like a grave and lay down at the bottom of it, „he wait skin, meat, everything 

 come out," his spirit was to „leave him body, walk about, he no dead." His intention seems to 

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