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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.
Melanesian mythology refers to the folklore, myths, and religions of Melanesia, a region in Southwest Oceania that encompasses the archipelagos of New Guinea (including Indonesian New Guinea and Papua New Guinea), the Torres Strait Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji.
According to the official Indonesian law, [2] the Papuans, [2] indigenous Papuans, [2] or native Papuans (the plural anglicisation of Papua or Papwa) are the common native-derived internationalized endonym in Indonesian English for the Native Eastern Indonesians of Papua-origin (as opposed to “New Guineans” term coined by the British colonizers).
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.
Papuan is an adjective referring to: anything related to New Guinea, a large island north of Australia; anything related to one or another of the countries or territories on this island that are specifically known as Papua; Papuan languages, a geographic group comprising a large number of the languages of New Guinea
The largest family posited for the Papuan region is the Trans–New Guinea phylum, consisting of the majority of Papuan languages and running mainly along the highlands of New Guinea. The various high-level families may represent distinct migrations into New Guinea, presumably from the west. [ 4 ]
Figures in Vietnamese mythology include The Four Immortals: the giant boy Thánh Gióng, mountain god Tản Viên Sơn Thánh, [8] Chử Đồng Tử marsh boy, princess Liễu Hạnh. One of the Four Immortals also reemerges in the fighting between Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh ("the god of the mountain and the god of the Water").
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