steffisley

steffisley

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14 years ago @ http://g8fight.blogspo... - North Borneo Folklore ... · 0 replies · +2 points

yeah, cool.. Great blog btw.

14 years ago @ http://g8fight.blogspo... - North Borneo Folklore ... · 2 replies · +2 points

I'm a Rungus and yeah, just adding some thoughts though, you know that there was nothing recorded I mean documented like in scrolls or whatever regarding our origins right? Simply because we, Rungus, Dusun or the Kadazan don't have our own script. We don't posses any writing systems that can preserve our history. So, the only, I can say legit infos that everybody refers to these days are the one documented after 1959 (around there). Which is when politics started in Sabah. Now, the info, which the Basel Mission recorded, was documented around 1952. That's like few years earlier. And these people, the Basel Mission people are still alive today. Some of them at least, like 2? And they have facebook account. They say pretty much that the Rungus or Momogun is the root of Kadazan and possibly Dusun.. These are eye accounts who say so. They do refer to the fables but oral tradition's info changes through time. It's sad that the British didn't care to record the situation before that (1952) because if they did, we might have rather a deep insight of what our origin could be. Sorry for the long comment though.. I'm just sayin...