Ini Andan

A goddess who protects farmers and blesses them with abundance and skill. Ini Andan is associated with the "Feast of the Whetstones," a ceremony that takes place before land is cleared for farming.

Also a goddess of the heavens who possesses all sorts of charms to bring about luck, wealth, abundance, and skill.

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References

Sources

  • Sarawak Gazette. (1963). Borneo Literature Bureau, pp. 77, 135, 147.
  • Howell, William. (1908-1910). [A collection of articles on the Sea Dyak]. Sarawak Gazette, nos. 39-40, p. 37.
  • Nyuak, Leo. (1906). "Religious Rites and Customs of the Iban or Dyaks of Sarawak, trans. the Very Rev. Edm. Dunn." Anthropos 1:11-24, 165-184, 403-425, p. 177.
  • Roth, Henry Ling. (1968). The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Singapore: University of Malaya Press, pp. 174-175.