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Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo

This paper concerns reading symbols that had appeared in the “Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth” published in the Journal of Malaysia Branch Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) by Williams (1960). As Campbell (1988: 5) said, “We should read myths. They teach us that we can turn inward, and we will begin to get...

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Main Author: Low, Kok On
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2006
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BJ Ethics
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spelling my.ums.eprints.191722018-03-08T02:28:12Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19172/ Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo Low, Kok On BJ Ethics This paper concerns reading symbols that had appeared in the “Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth” published in the Journal of Malaysia Branch Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) by Williams (1960). As Campbell (1988: 5) said, “We should read myths. They teach us that we can turn inward, and we will begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts—but if you read the other one, you begin to get the message.” In other words, myth is a manifestation of symbolic images. The symbolic field is based on the experiences of people in a particular community, at that particular time and place. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2006 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19172/1/Reading%20symbols%20and%20mythical%20landscape%20in%20the.pdf Low, Kok On (2006) Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, IJAPS, 2 (2). pp. 29-50. ISSN 1823-6243
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Low, Kok On
Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
description This paper concerns reading symbols that had appeared in the “Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth” published in the Journal of Malaysia Branch Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) by Williams (1960). As Campbell (1988: 5) said, “We should read myths. They teach us that we can turn inward, and we will begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts—but if you read the other one, you begin to get the message.” In other words, myth is a manifestation of symbolic images. The symbolic field is based on the experiences of people in a particular community, at that particular time and place.
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author Low, Kok On
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title Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
title_short Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
title_full Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
title_fullStr Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
title_full_unstemmed Reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth" of North Borneo
title_sort reading symbols and mythical landscape in the "tambunan dusun origin myth" of north borneo
publisher Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
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url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19172/1/Reading%20symbols%20and%20mythical%20landscape%20in%20the.pdf
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