The Folk-Tales of tlie Kiivai Papuana. 503 



Omebåli killed tiie pig, and in accordance with thc instiuction of the dream-gi\ers he eut 

 it up and made the two large tusks into an armlet. He threw the skin of the back into the 

 water, and it became a turtlc, and in the same vvay the belly was transformed into a dugong. 

 Some small pièces of meat were turned into various kinds of fish. ,,No more sleep along tree," 

 he said to his mother, „that thing you me (ue) fright he n<> more now." Thenceforth thej' lived 

 on the ground, and they took up the gardens which had been abandoned by the people at their flight. 



One day Omebåli asked his mother where his father was and learnt that he had gone to 

 \&m Island. He made a canoe ready and sailed away to find his father, but <)ne remained at 

 home. W'hile sailing along Omebåli threw away some meat of the animais he had killed, and 

 thus the reefs in the sea were formed. ^^ The intestines of the animais turned into octopuses 

 which are abundant on the reefs. At length Omebåli reached Yam island and went on shore. 

 In the middle of the night when everybody was asleep he entered his father's house spitting out 

 a certain „medicine" which prevented the people from awaking. Then he lay down to sleep 

 with the i-est, and not before morning was his présence noticed by Tibüri. .,My God, what place 

 that man he come?" he wondered. He got teeth belong pig (armlet) along hand (arm); I think 

 that boy belong me. Oh, yes. that my boy, that's omebåli there he sleep." Tibüri and Nivia 

 woke him up, and on hearing who he was they embraced him in great joy. He showed them 

 the teeth of the wild pig which he had killed. The people all receivad him kindly and wondered 

 at his fine canoe. The girls all wanted to marry him. 



The next day he prepared to return home and was given a great quantity of food. The 

 girls all came out on the beach, but he only took one little girl with him, and one of Nivi'a's 

 girls was given to her family in exchange. < »mebàli left his harpooning outfit in Yam, and on 

 account of that the Måsingåra people ha\e no harpoons and do not understand how to spear 

 dugong and turtle. Omebåli brought his wife home to his mother, and the three li\ed together. 

 (Gågere, Måsingåra). 



A. Tibiiri and his wife lived at Apelu, not far from Måsingåra. A certain woman and har 

 daughter lived in the neighbourhood, . and tiiey were a kind of hiwai-abcre (mythical female beings ef. 

 no. 148). Tibüri saw the girl fishing in a swamp, his passion was e.xcited, and his penis created a 

 wave in the water which reached the girl and caused her lo become pregnant. One day Tibüri trans- 

 formed himself into a large snake and brought a great quantity of food to the two women, carrying 

 all the things across on his back in bundles two and two together. The mother and daughter were at 

 first very frightened, but at length the latter understood that he was her husband, and at their request 

 he resumed his human form. The next day Tibüri took his wife home with him, but the oid hiwäi- 

 abére remained behind. He built a separate house for each of his two wives. Tibüri asked the 

 children of his wives to marry each other, although he was their father, for he wanted to found a 

 large people. In course of time he died, and his son Måguane was given his name. 



The old /ihcni-ahcre was angry because her daughter never returned to see her, and therefore 

 she caused a wild boar to ruin the people's gardens and kill many of them also. A bush of thorny 

 creepers was growing on the pig's head. The people used to live on the ground but young Tibüri 

 built a house on high posts which the beast tried in vain to knock down. ^^ P'inally he determined to 

 flee from the wild beast and sailed away in a canoe with his one wife, but the other woman who was 

 pregnant remained in the house. Tibüri went to Tütu and stayed there. 



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