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and Toar met without knowing one another, and on 

 measuring sticks they found that Lumimuiit's stick was 

 longer than Toar's, for the tuis stick had sprouted out and 

 grown. Thereupon they returned to Kareima, and when 

 she had measured the sticks she said, ' You are not mother 

 and son, therefore you must become man and wife. Be 

 fruitful and populate the earth.' So Lumimuiit and Toar 

 became man and wife. They begat many children, ' twice 

 nine, three times seven, and once three.' The ' three ' are 

 the Pasijowan, of whom one was the priest Leleen at Waren- 

 dukan in the air, from the other two the people of Minahassa 

 trace their descent. 



When these children had multiplied and spread over the 

 earth, Lumimuiit called them together at Pinahawetengan, 

 and divided the country amongst them. One quarter in 

 the north-west she gave to the Tombulus, another quarter 

 in the north-east to the Tonseas, another in the south-east 

 to the Toiitumaratas, and the fourth quarter to the Toiitem- 

 boan (22). 



This legend of the origin of the earth and its people is 

 full of interest to the student of cosmogonies. The story 

 of the conception of Lumimuiit by the god of the west 

 wind, as Wilken (91) shows, exhibits traces of the very 

 common myth of the marriage of Heaven and Earth. 

 Lumimuiit is the earth goddess, the fruitful mother of all 

 things ; the west wind is the one which brings the rain and 

 fertilises the earth. 



The people of Minahassa seem to have kept very com- 

 plete genealogies, and traced their descent directly from 

 Lumimuiit, the mother of all men. Wilken was able to 

 give the complete genealogy of Albert Waworuntu, the 

 Majoor of Sarongsong, and of Eoland Ngantung, the Majoor 

 of Tomohon. These genealogies commence in precisely 

 the same way, and prove conclusively that, although the 



