Vanishing and Returning Heroes: Ambiguity and Persistent Hope in an Unea Island Legend
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Description: An analysis and synopsis of the story of Mataluangi from East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.
VANISHING AND RETURNING HEROES: 1995 Blythe, Jennifer. Vanishing and Returning Heroes: Ambiguity and Persistent hope in an Unea Island Legend. Throughout Melanesia, there are stories of creative heroes who leave their people. Peter Lawrence (l964, l989) traced the development of such stories in Northeastern New Guinea and investigated the political implications of the persistent belief that the hero would return. This paper follows Lawrence in exploring the story of a hero who left and who, like Manup and Kilibob, in Lawrence's (l964) account became the focus of millenarian beliefs. The hero is Mataluangi and his former home is the island of Unea, the most densely populated of the Vitu Islands, a group located northwest of the Willaumez Peninsula in Northwest New Guinea. The paper briefly describes the island and local ideas about the cosmos so that the story can be placed in a wider epistemological context. Then it discusses a type of legend,
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