The Mummy Returns (2001) was on TV, and I watched a part of it, and the similarity between the Pygmies in the film and the Austronesian legends of the “Little Black People.” [image] In the film these pygmies are short enough to be invisible when moving through shrubs, attack by grabbing people’s a…

A corpus of 220 Formosan flood myths all translated into English will be published very soon with Edwin Mellen Press under the title “The Formosan Deluge Myths”. It includes multiple flood myths from all of Taiwan’s tribes (except the Thao who have no deluge myths). Academic Publishing Subject Areas …

Thanks, I didn’t know about this. Hawaiian version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menehune In the Hawaiian version, the Menehune magically built several structures overnight. Menehune fishpond wall at Niumalu, Kauaʻi Kīkīaola ditch at Waimea, Kauaʻi Necker Island structures Pa o ka menehune, breakw…

A lot of cultures have myths about diminutive human-shaped beings, like elves and fairies.

The naughty aliens flying saucers were handy for getting round.

Just read about the Hla’alua (new name for the Saaroa people, used to be grouped under Tsou, but their languages are not mutually intelligible) legend. They refer to the pygmies as Kavurua, and myth goes their ancestors also learned the skill of farming from the Kavuruas. In their version, it was …

We had a similar reference to Kakamora in Disney’s Polynesian themed Moana. Also check this Indonesian footage out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TGhLWf5W3s

[image] Negrito skull confirms Taiwan indigenous legends of 'little Black people' |... 6,000-year-old skull found in Taitung cave was that of a woman who was 139 cm tall | 2022-10-07 18:18:00

Amazing find! Our negrito ancestors certainly reached very corner or the West Pacific.

[image] Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery... Taiwan is known as the homeland of the Austronesian-speaking groups, yet other populations already had lived here since the Pleistocene. Conventional notions have postulated that the Palaeolithic h... …

Pygmies from The Mummy Returns

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hansioux October 14, 2022, 2:27am 18

Nearly every tribe has a flood myth. I’ve translated some of them in this thread in my discussion with @FloodResearcher, who seems to have joined the forum to discuss the subject.