Papuan mythology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-13

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Papuan mythology

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The Papuans are one of four major cultural groups of Papua New Guinea.  The majority of the population lives in rural areas.  In isolated areas there still remains a handful of the giant communal structures that previously housed the whole male population, with a circling cluster of huts for the women.  The Papuan people are Melanesian people composed of at least 240 different peoples, each with its own language and culture.  Sago is the staple food of the Papuan supplemented with hunting, fishing and small gardens.
Papuans may be related to the Iatmul on the Sepik River and to the Asmat and Marind-anim farther west along the coast.  There the cultures share concepts of village “big men”, great longhouses, huge dugout canoes, headhunting and, in some areas, cannibalism.
Ancestors are important, but not necessarily revered in Papuan culture.  The important quality is called “imunu”, the power that pervades things, including ritual objects.  Imunu is personified in the masked ceremonies.  Most representations are of humans or ancestors, not plants or animals.  Traditional cultural ceremonies on a large scale existed into the 1950s, but declined as Christian missionaries converted the villages.