Description
| Summary: | Today ethnic minorities exist whose daily lives continue to bear witness to contemporary myths: these legends are their faith, and the animals, their gods. From the Indonesian horsemen of Sumba Island to the wild elephant tamers of the Vietnamese forest, this collection reveals the most wondrous of beliefs which unite man and animal in the spectacular, thousand-year old fulfillment of a magical destiny. The Toraja would not exist without the buffalo. When the world began, our ancestor came down to earth with a buffalo that walked behind him. It was a long and dangerous journey that brought them here. Ever since, we feel that the dead need a guide to help them find the land of happy souls and only the buffalo know the way.
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (video file (28 min.)) : sound, color. |
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| Playing Time: | 00:28:07 |
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| Access: | Access restricted to authorised ANU staff and students. |
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| Language: | This edition in English and Toraja with English subtitles. |
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