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Updated: May 16, 2025
The following notes are the statements made upon this subject by a very intelligent Iban of the Undup district: Once a year they make a big feast for Singalang Burong and sing for about twelve hours, calling him and Klieng and all the Petara to the feast. At the end of the feast he would go out, take off his coat, and fly away in the form of a white-headed hawk.
And you will see that Rosey only takes away such clothes for herself and her baby as are actually necessary, won't you, dear? the plain things, you know none of the fineries they may be packed in a petara or two, and you will take them with you but the pomps and vanities, you know, we will leave behind the pearls and bracelets, and the plate, and all that rubbish and I will make an inventory of them to-morrow when you are gone, and give them up, every rupee's worth, sir, every anna, by Jove, to the creditors."
Their cult of the PETARA seems to show traces of Javanese and Hindu influence or origin. Ideas of the Soul Illustrated by Burial Customs, Soul-Catching, and Exorcism As among ourselves, several very different systems for the cure of sickness are practised among the Kayans, and these seem to imply very different theories of the cause of disease.
Archdeacon Perham has given an account of the Petara of these people, showing how it is a conception of one god having very many manifestations and functions, each special function being conceived vaguely as an anthropomorphic deity. He has described also the mythical warrior-hero and demi-god Klieng, and the god of war, Singalang Burong.
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