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In African mythology, the spider is personified as a trickster character in African traditional folklore. The most popular version of the West African spider trickster is Kwaku Ananse of the Ashanti, anglicized as Aunt Nancy (or Sister Nancy) in the West Indies and some other parts of the Americas, to name a few of many incarnations. [22]
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...
Beings. Acintya; Agni; Aji Saka; Bidadari; Batara Guru; Batara Kala; Batara Sambu; Brahma; Calon Arang; Chen Fu Zhen Ren; Damarwulan; Dewi Danu; Dewi Lanjar; Dewi ...
Folklore of Indonesia is known in Indonesian as dongeng (lit. ' tale '), cerita rakyat (lit. ' people's story ') or folklor (lit. ' folklore '), refer to any folklore found in Indonesia. Its origins are probably an oral culture, with a range of stories of heroes associated with wayang and other forms of theatre, transmitted outside of a written ...
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As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Indonesia and the Philippines: [1] Orthrus bicolor Simon, 1900 – Philippines; Orthrus calilungae Barrion, 1998 – Philippines; Orthrus muluensis Wanless, 1980 – Borneo; Orthrus palawanensis Wanless, 1980 – Philippines
At the beginning of creation, the only things in existence were Areop-Enap (a spider) and the sea. [1] Areop-Enap searched for food in the darkness and found an enormous clam (in some accounts a Tridacna clam). [2]