{"id":189,"date":"2012-06-26T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T08:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:55:45","slug":"reading-symbols-mythical-landscape-low-kok-on","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=189","title":{"rendered":"Reading Symbols and Mythical Landscape, by Low Kok On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006): 29\u201350.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This paper concerns reading symbols that had appeared in the\u00a0&#8220;Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth&#8221; published in the Journal of Malaysia\u00a0Branch Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) by Williams (1960). As Campbell (1988: 5) said, &#8220;We should read myths. They teach us that we can turn\u00a0inward, and we will begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other\u00a0people&#8217;s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret\u00a0your own religion in terms of facts\u2014but if you read the other one, you begin\u00a0to get the message.&#8221; In other words, myth is a manifestation of symbolic\u00a0images. The symbolic field is based on the experiences of people in a\u00a0particular community, at that particular time and place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Low Kok On (PhD, Universiti Sains Malaysia) is a Senior Lecturer attached to Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kampus Antarabangsa Labuan (Labuan International Campus). The main focus of his research area is on folk-literature of the Kadazandusun in Sabah. His latest publications include Reading Myths and Legends of Kadazandusun (Bangi, Malaysia: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2005), \u201cThe Origins of the Kadazandusun Reconsidered Based on Oral Literature\u201d (in Sarim Mustajab (ed.), Warisan Budaya Sabah: Etnisiti dan Masyarakat [Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 2004]), and \u201cKadazandusun Folklore\u201d (in William M. Clements (ed.), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife [Wetport, U.S.: Greenwood, 2006]). He is currently collecting stories on the legendary Tunku Syarif Kedah, a Malay saint known amongst the Kedayans and Brunei Malays in Labuan Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/low.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download full article (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006): 29\u201350. 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