344 . Gunnar Landtman. 



It was not for the Ki'wai people only that Marûnogére inaugurated the mogiiru ceremuny 

 but for every people. (Nåmai, Mavväta). 



A. Some parts of the mogitni include certain sexual orgies in connection with the initiation 

 of youths and girls, and it is stated in this version that Marûnogére (who was a Mäubo man) at first 

 used to hold that part, of the ceremony alone with the boys and girls in a hole in the ground where 

 they hid away from the rest of the people. Afterwards the ceremony was performed in the men's 

 house. Marûnogére and anoiher great man named Gibogo quarrelled as to the correct way in which 

 to perform the mogiim. The latter wanted everbody to take part, while Marûnogére wished to keep 

 the ceremony secret and to giva prominence to the sexual aspect which were to take place in the dark. 

 On account of the quarrel Gibögo and his followers left the rest and went up inio the sky where they 

 cause the thunder in order to frighten Marûnogére and his people. (Nåmai, Mawâta). 



B. Måruu (or Marûnogére), a Måubo man living in Dibiri, at first held the mogiiru in a hole 

 in the ground with the grown-up boys and girls. Referring to this incident a verse of a sériai 

 song says, 



„Måruu hnpH iMrimo rcnntriio. — Inside ground dàrimo belong Måruu he move him (when the 

 people dance)." 



He used a tiro-moX for the ceremony as in the first version. Mâruu's intention was to „make people 

 come long life", but when on the contrary many people died, he had to give up holding the mogiiru 

 in the ground and built a large house. Instead of the mat he used a live snake which after the cere- 

 mony was let loose in the bush, hut that method loo was no good. Then he made a pig as in the 

 first version. The end of the snout was made of the sprouting end of a coconut (which curiously 

 resembles a pig's snout). Mdruu ordered his men to catch the pig alive but it was shot by his youngest 

 son .Wâpoôpubûro, and the people could hear afterwards the gruniing of the invisible spirit of the pig. 

 On learning of the pig's death Måruu said, „You fellow spoil him people. I want give him people 

 long life. make him stop along world; you shoot that pig, people he go dead too." The mogiiru was 

 held with the dead pig. Among the ingrédients of the „medicine" given to the young men was a 

 small pièce of the eyebrows of the pig, which would enable them to detect their enemies quickly. One 

 of the mogiiru songs runs, ■ 



„Köru mdikopu era viäiköpu. — Me fellow dance now, you fellow light tire, look me fellow." 

 Marûnogére's wife Kûe was the first person to die in conséquence of the killing of the pig. 



Marûnogére sent somebody to fetch a woman named Samåia to cook his pig; „You come cook 

 him meat belong pig belong Marûnogére." „That talk all same 'medicine'," said the narrator, „that 

 woman no can speak, 'I no want come,' — he come quick." This potent formula is still used by 

 the Mawåta men when they go to another place and want some girl to come to them; they say, „Sa- 

 måia — he no sing out proper nanie, he sing out that name he all same medicine — you come cook 

 meat belong Måruu, meat belong pig." The girl is thereby compelled to come to them, and that is 

 why the Mawåta men have married so many women from oiher places. 



The dance which the boys and girls held in Mâruu's darimo made the ground shake so much 

 that the house in which the parents lived feil into the water, people and all, and there it is still. At 

 night the inmates light their fires in the house, and some people have seen the gleams in the Måubo 

 river. 



it is thanks to the power of the mugiini ceremony that the Kiwai people have always been 

 victorious when fighting the „bushmen". 



Mâruu's pig was the first in the world, and the other pigs have urisen from the blood which 

 ^^'as shed when the pig was killed. (Amura, Mawåta). 



Tom. XLVn. 



