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JULY, 1924)
THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION OF THE ANDAMANESE
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"There is complete unanimity through all the groupe, on this point, that bad weather is the result of Biliku's anger” (I, p. 261). But he acknowledged quite honestly at that time that "What is rarticularly pugaling is that the South-wegt monsoon is the rainy monsoon, and during the North-east monsoon the weather is generally fine" (1, p. 267). Since then, how. ever, relying on the Biliku of the A-Puchikwar tribe, he has formed the idea of an extension of the North-east monsoon season, so that it is increased at the beginning and end by a stormy period, and on this extension he has in his new book built up an extremely artificial and complicated theory. That the reliance on the A-Puchikwap is frail we have already seen above. That the theory also has gaps and flows and that it has to have recourse to a considerable derangement of facta, we shall see below.'
For the present we will only emphasise the important fact, that among the Southern tribes, not two higher but only one Supreme Being exists; who is said to be masculine ; who stands above the opposition of the two Monsoons; after whom the Monsoon of the fine bright weather is called; but who also brings storms, thunder and cyclonos. (2) Let us now exaftine as to how the creation, especially of man, is explained in the
individual tribes (II, p. 192 ff.).
NORTHERN TRIBES. AKA-BO-The first man Jutpu (= Alone) was born as a small child in the knee of a big bamboo. He grow up and made himself & wife out of a nost of white ante: she was called Kot. Out of clay be made other ancestors, to whom he and his wife taught Accomplishments. AKA-JERU-1. First version : same as the Aka-Bo. 2. Second version : Poichotubut, the first man, was born in a buttress of a Sterculia tree. He had no wife, but cohabited with an ante' nest (Kot) and had many children from this union, who became the ancestors of the Andamanose. 3. Third version : Tarai was the first man and his wife was Kot. Their children were Tau (sky), Boto (wind), Piribi (storm), Air (foam on the sea). 4. Fourth version : Maia-chara was the first being. Heoreated the earth and peopled it. He also created the Sun and Moon His wtfe was Nimi. Their children were Cho (knjfo), Loto Lul
MIDDLE TRIBES. AKA-KEDE- Biliku made the world arid the first human beings. AKA-KOL-The first human being was fa-Peti (Monitor-lizard). His wife was the civet cat, and their children were the Tomo-la (ancestors). A-PUCHIKWAR--1. Ta Petie was the first snoestor. He obtained a wife from a black piece of wood that he brought home. They had a son, Poi. Lator Ta Petie was drowned and turned into Karaduku (shark). . 2. At first there were only men. Ta Petie cut off the man Kolotot's genitale. She became his wife and their children were the Tomo-la. 3. The first man was Tomo(-la). He made the world and peopled it with the ancestors. He made the moon (Paki), who boonma his wife. Both invented all the arts and accomplishments. After his death he went to live in the sky, where all the souls of mon go as well. There it is always day and beautiful weather. How Tomo originated is unknown first there was Tomo, then Biliku.
