Natives Borneo

O nce upon a time, Sempung’s daughter from his first wife Nyai Nunyang, the head of the village Tanjung Pamatang Sawang, who is Nyai Undang , made a problem because of her beauty. Many came to propose her, while she was already engaged to her other cousin Sangalang ( Lintung’s son, grandson of Karangkang ). Illustration of Battle of Bataguh Nawang, brother of the King of  Sulu - Mindanao ( Phillipines ) came to propose. He acted foolishly even though she already refused kindly. Because she was angry for being mistreated, Nyai Undang then stabbed Nawang with her Duhung ( Dayak traditional spearhead ). Nawang’s death soon heard by his brother Sawang, and he intended to avenge the death of his brother. He prepared twenty-five pencalang ( a kind of sailboat ) with eight thousand troops on it. Nyai Nunyang fell sick and died because of this incident. Nyai Undang then had to take over the leadership of her country Tanjung Pamatang Sawang. Realizing the condition, Nyai Undan...

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 Ka...