. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. Science. 352 Gunnar Landtman. burning torches the people must first touch the stone with theni for a moment. The people went to fetch the stone, and in the nieantime it had grown very large. The ceremony was held according to the instructions Boromohùro had received. (Amiira, Mawata). TEE INAUGURATION OF THE HORIOMU, OR TAERA, CEREMONY. The lioriihni/, or Ideia, ceremony, known by olher names also, comprehends a series of pantomim- ic dances and rites in which the men, masked and dressed up to represent the spirits of the dead. per- form before the women
. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. Science. 352 Gunnar Landtman. burning torches the people must first touch the stone with theni for a moment. The people went to fetch the stone, and in the nieantime it had grown very large. The ceremony was held according to the instructions Boromohùro had received. (Amiira, Mawata). TEE INAUGURATION OF THE HORIOMU, OR TAERA, CEREMONY. The lioriihni/, or Ideia, ceremony, known by olher names also, comprehends a series of pantomim- ic dances and rites in which the men, masked and dressed up to represent the spirits of the dead. per- form before the women. A whole galaxy of" différent personages appear in the ceremony. There is even a kind of a stage arrangement consisting of two screens with an opening in the centre through which the performers come out to dance, and the ends of the screens overlap so as lo prevent the specta- tors from lookrng into the shrine. After each dance tiie spirits retire behind the screens. The women, thinking that they really see the spirits of their departed friends, wail and bring them food. The ceromony is particularly connected with the spearing of dugong. 287. Once vvhen the Däru people were catching cfabs, a woman found one which was at the same time a mythical being. The crab withdrew into a hole in the ground which was full of watef, and tiy as she might to bail out the water the woman could not get at the crab. So she had to return home with an empty basket, whilc the other women brought in plenty of crabs. The mythical being which had hoaxed the woman was Wai'mee, the local spirit of Däru — „every place got one devil (spirit)." When night came, Waimee sent his iirio (spirit) to the woman, and it passed into her, causing her to become drowsy. She thought herself ill and said to her mother-in law, „Oh, abcrebûro (old woman), I got sick, I go sleep close to ; „AU right, you go sleep," said the old woman, and she was displeased vvith her daughter-ln-law, t
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