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C. Gi'bogo wanted to hold the mogiirn in a light place, Marunoge?t-îa' a dark hole in the 

 ground. After a time the latter, however, left the ground. He made the pig as in the previous ver- 

 sions. Mariinogére married the boys and girls and bored a hole in each of the latter, pouring some 

 blood into the hole. He also transformed a rat into a dog, and that was the lirst dog existing. The 

 pig was killed contrary to Marünogere's orders, and he said, „That pig make him road for all you me 

 dead," and that is why the people do not live long. He caused his house to fall into the Di'biri river 

 and sometimes in the night the fires can be seen shining in the water and the noise of the people. can 

 be heard from there („man he yarn, he laugh, play inside that house"). 



Gibogp went up into the sky where he causes thunder and lightning; he said, „Marûnogére, 

 you stop along dark place, I stop along light place, night, day he light." (Dudne, Mawäta). 



D. At first Mariinogére intended to make use' of a woman when performing the »logiiru be- 

 fore he created a pig. The pig was caught alive and then killed in the ddrimo, and the blood was 

 collected in a large bamboo tube. Mariinogére bored a hole in each woman filling it with blood. The 

 children born of the women were sent by Marûnogére to populate the différent parts of the country. 

 (Vasârigi, Mawâta). 



E. Mariinogére bored a hole in each of the women and hlled il with blood, as related be- 

 fore. (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



F. Mariinogére sent a man named Sardrege to catch a pig alive and promised to reward him 

 with a woman. The pig was very wild and unintentionally the man strangled it. Mariinogére said, 

 „Suppose he life, you me life altogelher; suppose he kill him, man he dead woman, pickaninny too." 

 By means of the mogi'nii ceremony the people e.xpect to „make him big life" for themselves. (Gabîa, 

 Ipisi'a). 



HOW THE DUDl WOMEN GOT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOGURU. 



280. The Irago people in Diîdi were once preparing to hold a mogilru ceremony. Many 

 day.s previously the womsn had been told to make sago, and early one morning the men went 

 to the bush to kill a wild boar. But search as they would they could not find a single pig, and 

 the same thing happened every morning when they went out with their dogs. At last the people 

 became tired and decided to hold the ceremony with a tame pig. The}' caught a pig called 

 iragoma by the man and woman who owned it (the name is derived from that of the village). 

 The pig was secured with rope-3 and the snout was tied up so that it could not grunt, and the 

 people Started singing as when returning from the bush with a wild pig, 



„Doveamo dgibe doveamo dgibe biisére ûramti dgibe dåvemno. — We been find him pig 

 now, belong altogether man and girl." 



The pig was left for a while in the bush near the liårimo (men's house) and all the women and 

 children were shut up in their houses. A wide red streak was painted lengthwise over che pig's 

 head with a white patch on either side, and plumes of feathers were tied on to the head. A great 

 number of arrows were stuck in the ground with the heads meeting above so as to form a roof 

 over the pig. Each new boy was ushered to the place by his maternai uncle who showed him 

 the pig. „That's one (thing) we make him," the men said. „You no speak woman, no speak 

 pickaninny. You fellow no more pickaninny now, you come man now." 



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