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The legend
of Lamòling: Unwritten memories and diachronic toponymy through the
lens of an Abui myth.
This paper reconstructs a number of Abui
(Papuan) place names and micro-toponyms from the coastal area of Alor
(South-East Indonesia) through the analysis of a legend centered on two gods
from the Abui traditional religion, ending with the replacement of the first
deity with the second one. The myth appears as diachronically ‘multi-layered’,
from ancestral times to the arrival of Christianity in Alor, with the
consequent identification of the ‘bad’ (or ‘weaker’) god as a demon and, then,
as the devil.
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