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like that, I do not knovv he go kill who?" Sido speared one of his mothers first, and throwing 

 her into the vvater transformed her into a turtle, saying, „You name turtle. All people stop ail 

 over place he go kaikai you." Then he speared his other mother, threw her into the water too, 

 and turned her into a dugong, saying, „Name belong you dugong. Ali over country he go kaikai 

 you." On his threatening to spear the Bdigu people also, they ail ran away, but he stood up 

 and called out to them, „That's road I go make him, all Bôigu man there, you fellow listen me 

 what name I go say. Ail over country that's road I make him, all he follow that road. I first 

 man go, I make that road." (Gibüma, Mawäta). 



A. Sido's spirit was waiting in Boigu for the appearance of the new moon, when he intended 

 10 go back to Uüo. The arrivai ol his two mothers in spite of his warning made him „shame". The 

 people, seeing the skull which the women were carrying, concluded that he was a ghost, „Oh, bone 

 belong man; he devil-man.' Having drunk from his skull, which his mothers handed him by mistake, 

 Sido cried out, „Oh, (hat proper head belong me 1 drink, mother he spoil me -now! ■ After kicking 

 the head into the water and spearing his mothers, whom he transformed into a dugong and a turtle, 

 Sido Said, „Fault belong you two fellow, you been spoil me, spoil him people too. Close up I go 

 back Uüo, I wait new moon, you two humbug me, I no can go back now, I been drink my head, I 

 shame. 1 go allogether, everybody follow me, 1 go along Adiri. 1 first man go, first man dead, every- 

 body come behind, by and by everybody dead, I beginning now." (Ndmai, Mawata). 



B. When the two woinen, arriving at Boigu, had made Sido drink from his own skull, he 

 said to them, „What for you giwe me this water, you make me shame? You two make him people 

 no good now. Suppose I come back, people he all right, no dead. You two fellow been give me that 

 water, stop me road now. Suppose you no been give him, I come back." He then speared Ihe two 

 women, and turned them into a dugong and a turtle. Låter on he said to the people: „You fellow 

 come behind me, where I go. Two mother make me no good, that's why 1 no come back. All people 

 he follow me, every country." Sido lett his skull and spear at the big water-hole in Boigu,'" where 

 they were kept unlil quite recently; many people have seen them. (Iku, Mawùta). 



C. Sido said, „Suppose two mother been stop along place, new moon I come back. Behind 

 (afterwards) suppose man he dead, niio (soul) he come, catch (reaches) him Boigu, stop wait new moon, 

 go back, make life again." From Boigu he went lo Adiri. „Sido been put word (created that word), 

 'Me go along Adiri', me fellow no savy where Adiri he stop." (Amiira, Mawata). 



Ü. Sido dränk from his own head and killed the two women, turning the one into a dugong 

 and the oiher into a lurtle. (Kdku, Ipisia). 



SIDO ARRIVES AT ADIRI WHERE HE REMAINS (no. 41—43). 



4 1 . .'\diri is thought to lie at the extreme western horder of the vvorld, where the sun and 

 moongodown. On his way to Adiri Sido came to a place called Miiba, which means point; there he 

 savv a fine nibunibu, shrub with sweetscented leaves, and said, „Oh, good fellow wood he stop." 

 At the next place, Bduda, he found a gåera standing (this is a tree which the people erect at 

 one of their agricultuial cérémonies, hanging all sorts of garden products on its branches, cf. no. 

 290). The gåera said „all same inan", „Sido, you stop here.?" and Sido answered, „No, I no 

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