Natives Borneo

E very Dayak believes that their ancestor came from the  sky  brought down to Earth using a golden pot ( which was the heavenly transportation ) in four separate locations. By  the  will  of  Ranying Hatalla Langit ( God ), using the golden pot was a man ( who actually a god or Sangiang ), named Antang Bajela Bulau on the top of Pamatuan hill, somewhere between the river of Kahayan and Barito. And by his power, Antang BAjela Bulau created two men name Lambung and Lanting. While on top of black granite in upstream of Rakaui river which ends in Malahui river ( now part of West Borneo ), God created two eggs of hornbill and eagle bird which on their arrival to the ground suddenly transformed into a man and three women. The man named  Litih  or  Tiung  Layang,  who then became Jata ( the under water ruler, the god of the under world ), while the three  women were named Kamulung Tenek Bulau, Kameluh Putak Bulau, and Lentar Katingei Bulau. Kameluh Putak Bulau died, and her body was

D ayak are the native people of Borneo . It's a loose term for more than 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally inside the interior of Borneo, each using its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily identifiable. Dayak languages are categorized as section of the Austronesian languages in Asia. The Dayak were animist in belief; however many converted to Islam as the 19th century, mass conversion to Christianity. Dayak people with armor 1913 History The Dayak people of Borneo possess an indigenous account of the history, mostly in oral literature, partly on paper in PAPAN TURAI ( wooden records ), and partly in common cultural customary practices. Among prominent accounts from the origin from the Dayak people includes the mythical oral epic of TETEK TAHTUM from the Ngaju-Ot Danum Dayak of Central Borneo, it narrates the ancestors from the all Dayak people descended coming from th