172 Gunnar Landtman. 



Ânai was away four days. One afternoon, when the people were returning from their 

 gardens, thsy saw two men approaching the village from the direction of the burying ground, the 

 one was Kogéa, the man who had just died, and the other Ànai. They came Walking along like 

 ordinary people, carrying their bows and arrows, Ànai a basket as well. Kogéa turned back at 

 the horiomu shrine (cf. Introduction to no. 287), which was on their way, and it appeared to the 

 people as though he had accompanied Ànai some distance because he was sorry to part from 

 him. The spirits had given Ànai some food, which he was carrying in his basket, but nearly 

 ail thèse products of the spirit-land had fallen to the ground and gone back to their ovvn place. 

 One ddnaki (a kind of yam) alone remained, for Ànai had held it tightly in his basket. After 

 Kogéa had gone back, Ànai came to the people and sat among them without saying a word. 

 Somebody asked him, „Ànai, where from you come?" And he answered, „I been make fire 

 belong Kogéa, I blow that fire, same time that ground he burst, Kogéa he haul me go inside. 

 Four day I stop." Then he told them about the place of the dead, „AU same you me (we) them 

 devil he stop. They got kaikai too, that's why you no (should not be) sorry them fellow too 

 much." The people asked, „Ground he shut him, what's way (how) they walk about.'" „AU 

 same you me walk about on top, them fellow walk about underneath. Plenty room he got, full 

 up people, you me (we) no much people (compared with the number of the dead)." 



Ànai had been taught many things by the dead. He told the people, „Next time you no 

 blow along fire — that's why ground he been burst, I go inside." Kogéa had taught him to mask 

 and dress himself in a certain way when planting yams and to use certain „medicines" and per- 

 form the planting according to Kogéa's directions (abbrev.). Ànai imparted this knowledge to his 

 clansmen. When Ànai wanted to return home Kogéa had rent the ground asunder, and both 

 of them came up. 



A. The same story, only the names of the two men were forgotten. The man who returned 

 from beneath the burying ground had seen many dead people there, and they lived in a fine place and 

 had many gardens. The man did not want to speak about what he had seen, but said that he would 

 not be afraid when he was going to die. From adventures like thèse, the narrator said, some people 

 concluded that the place of the dead was underneath the ground. (Nâmai, Mawâta). 



70. An Ipisi'a man named Dodo or Diiöri dreamt this. One evening the men were sitting 

 on the verandah of a house. They did not know of the présence of a dead man {ntdnakai) who 

 was there underneath the house. Suddenly the spirit seized one of them and carried him off into 

 the bush. The man shrieked, „Oh, who take me go along bush? More better ail people come!" 

 The people went to look for him but could not find him anywhere and returned home much 

 frightened. That night all the doors were carefully barred. The mdnakai left the man dead on 

 the road close to the burying ground, where he was found next morning. He was carried home 

 on a Utter and put close to a big fire in his house, and there he suddenly returned to life. 

 „What's the matter you die.'" the people asked him. And he said, „That man he (who) been 

 catch me he no hot, he cold all over, that's why me die. You put me along fire, I life." „That 

 man he been catch you, what place he been come.'" „He come along burying ground, he leave 

 me along road, I been look, he go down along burying place." They all went there to see. 

 „What place he been go down?" they asked Dodo, and he pointed it out to them: „This place 



Tom. XLVU. 



