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The invocation spoken at the consecration of the buffalo, as well as the various prayers and the invocation given at the ma’tambuli, consists of a number of homonymous strophes. These prayers and the ma’tambuli invocation precede the consecration invocation, but because the last mentioned is the pièce de résistance, preference will be given to it here.
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Gold is found in the westerly territories of the Ma’kale and Rantepao regions (the present-day Tana Toradja).
Port, Bangairante also begat eight mythical beings when he married.
In Australia the Supreme Being is also represented as an old grey-haired man. See Professor Dr. H. T. v. Baaren’s Wij mensen, published by Erven J. Bijleveld, Utrecht, 1960, p. 62. Mythical beings are almost always represented as old men by the Papuans of Waropen, see Professor Dr. G. J. Held, Papoea’s van Waropen, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1947, p. 62.
See J. Kruyt: „De Boca’ en eenige andere feesten der Toradja’s van Rantepao en Ma’kale“, Tijdschrift Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Vol. 60, 1921/22, pp. 45 and 161.
Strophes 180–192 are similar to strophes 29–114 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 301, 302 and 303 are similar to strophes 104, 105 and 106 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 11 to 14 are similar to strophes 99 to 102 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 53–68 are similar to strophes 99–115 of B, with the exception of strophe 111 of B, which does not occur in G; they are not included here.
Strophes 73–77 are similar to strophes 117–122 of B, but strophe 120 of B does not occur in G; they are not included here.
Strophes 111–113 are identical with 100–102 of B, and are therefore not included. g) Strophes 116–121 are identical with strophes 106, 107, 109, 112, 113 and 114 of B, and are therefore not included. h) Strophes 123–127 are similar to strophes 194–198 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 6 and 7 are identical with strophes 6 and 4 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are identical with strophes 10, 8, 7, 15, 16 and 17 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophes 17–19 are identical with strophes 12–14 of B, and are therefore not included.
Strophe 21 is the same as strophe 19 of B, and is therefore not included.
Strophe 23 is the same as strophe 18 of B, and is therefore not included.
Strophes 29 and 30 are the same as strophes 31 and 32 of B, and are therefore not included.
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van der Veen, H. (1965). The Offertories and the Invocation Spoken at the Consecration of the Buffalo. In: The Merok Feast of the Sa’Dan Toradja. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-. Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4760-8_2
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