Kadazan - what it really means! (part 2)

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Kadazan - the good Spirited people (Peter Mojuntin), Sakag do Kinoingan (Ignatius Buji), Kadazan tokou savi-avi (James Ongkili), a name that pissed off the devil, and his human allies, and contradicts the teaching of Mohd and his ulamas because according to them only Muslims are human and non-Muslims are worst than animals.

The "Inaait" of the Bobohizans (Bobolian) are passed down from generation to generation. It takes a long and challenging process to train a novice into a 'matured' bobohizans who were expected to exercise leadership, wisdom and discipline in their vocation. The following is an excerpt which was taken from a preliminary dialogue between the Bobohizan, through his or her 'divato' or spirit guide and a 'principality, normally a bigger or higher demon. (It has to be understood that the Bobohizan's primary objective is to 'seek the divine intervention of Kinoingan (Creator God) but he had to pass through these 'demons' and had to appease them by bringing some kind of offerings to them, of course, this is indeed a deception)

Male Bobohizan leading in the Harvest Festival

"Divato oi, kumukud oi,

Kodivataan dikozu, komukudan di muzu,

Iiih  kano podo umangkai, kodivatan dikozu,

Komukudan dimuzu, umakai tokou,

Kanou manakadai,

Kanou munsuvab,

Manakadai doid hibababou,

Mononsuvato id sombou.

Divato oi, kumukud oi,

Toodo tokou do madsakazan,

Toodo tokou do mogundanan,

Om sontimbang tokou no,

Sombat nokio, nombo nopo au otimbang

Nga timbangon do timbagat,

Paaton do tanghansod,

Do au no otimbang,

Au apaat nga oiti no tokou do hintaga,

Disakazan, diti hinsonod, diti tudanan.

Kanou bosizo tokou sakazan,

Koudo do tozohud,

Bobosi ingkondio.

Koudo do bongutano,

Ingkokondio  ih binosi,

Bongutan ih ginaud.

Uha induvo bosi,

Kiva nga intohu gaud.

Aati to no do tozohud,

Uha induvo bosizo,

Vanga intohu gaud.

Iiih om nokosondikot  to no oi Ondig,

Iiih om nakasa'amboi to no oi Andam.

Nokosondikot kito nodo nantadon,

Nakasahamboi kito nodo gazamon,

Hiiih sondikoton unsui,

Hiih sonhoboson kio.

Logon: "Tuuk oi Boisan, Bahazi,

    isai  ti monondikot,

   Dozo iti manahambo?"

Tuuk oi Boisan, Bahazi,

Ada oku intukao,

Nobobou oku pom sandak,

Noguom oku pom dazang;

Ada oku ih intukao,

Iiih nobobou oku ih,

Noguom oku ih kio.

Logon: " Tuuk oi Boisan, Bahazi,

     Koiho kodo monondikot.

     Aanom ko monanhaboi,

     tondu Tanga'a ko toi,

     Tu kisinakai do baahon,

     Kinudan do tuvakon,

     Kisinakai do hinava,

     Kinudan do dadai? "

Gina gina naku,

Om kisinakai do baahon,

Tuvakon, hinava, dadai,

Tondu Kadazan zou ih,

Kimokudan kio:

Tu kisinakai zou do tagung,

Kinudan do gimbahon,

Kisinakai do tandaa,

Kinudan do tomudung,

Kisinakai zou do ondika,

Kinudan do inandoi,

Kisinakai do sangadangon,

Kinudan do sontomungan,

Kisinakai do pamantai,

Kinudan do hobuon,

Kisinakai zou do koiing,

Kinudan do doisoos,

Kisinakai do suud,

Kinudan do sudai,

Kisinakai do tumau,

Kinudan do tisu,

Tumau do ginavo,

Iiisu do hinsonod."

(At this point, my grandma, who had been a Christian (RC) for a number of years, stopped

as she felt that the evil spirits i.e. divato, were trying to come back to her.)

Note: dictated by Odu Ginayam ( a student bobohizan in early 1900)

            recorded by: Gun Ignatius Buji (grandson) in 1964.

 Note: The author wish to acknowledge Gundohing Justin Stimol's contribution in correcting a couple of the misspelled term in the ina'ait i.e. "tott" to "tuuk"
(These articles are copyright to the author and permission is given to copy them for educational purposes provided the source is acknowledged.)

End of part 2

Kadazan - what it really means! (part 1)

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The root word - daza -which is used only to refer to a Deity, for an example, "Tama Za" (Our Father referring to God the Father) is interpreted in the ordinary language of the Kadazan as "dagai". The prefix - "Ka" is a another powerful kadazan word which had multiple meanings depending on its usage and context but ordinarily, it means the spoken word as "ka disido" - according to him or simply, "he said" but repeating it completely alters its meaning, "kaka" - rumor or something of doubtful or unproven origin. It also signifies breathing out as in, "Ruach" and as in "Ruach Ha-Kodesh - Spirit of God" The suffix 'an' or just 'n' is normally added to a verb or  an adjective, together with the relevant prefix like "ka, ki, ko, etc " to make it into a noun or pronoun for example - uhi (go back) - ko-uhi-an or 'omoto-harvest' - ka-amata-n (kaamatan) (In this particular example, the verb "omoto" when made into a noun (kaamatan), the 'o' is replaced by 'a' and just 'n' , instead of 'an', is added to it)

So using this basic tool, "Ka" - according  to or spoken; "daza" or simple "dagai" - we, us or ours; and the suffix 'n' added to it makes it a noun. Literary, it means "we-spoke or our breathe" but the important element here is the adjective "daza" is used instead of "dagai" which means that God is speaking and not ordinary human beings.

Many of us who had been trained in western universities and embraced its mindsets and philosophies had limited ourselves when trying to understand eastern mindsets and its way of life especially as it relates to the spiritual and metaphysical realms. Kadazan is an eastern language though much of its culture and history had been destroyed either through neglect or invading forces in the past, one can still glean some of its traces when one prayerfully and faithfully commit oneself to seek the truth through the enlightenment brought about by the Power of the Holy Spirit or Sunduvan Tohidang and serious study of the Word of God.

Revelation knowledge, as some describes it, comes directly from two main sources, which are (a) the Spirit of God and (b) Satan and his evil spirits or counterfeit holy spirit. Only those who had been washed by the Blood of the Lamb of God and filled, empowered and led by His Spirit can have the required discernment, another topic dealt with fully by many authors and bloggers elsewhere. 

Before the arrival of the Christian missionaries, the life in the Kadazan communities revolved around the 'revelational knowledge' dispensed  through the ministry or office of the Bobohizan (Priest or Priestess) and these revelations were  more often than not from the evil spirits or counterfeit holy spirit. How do we know that? The Word of God tells us that 

the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal 5:22-26)

end of part 1.

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The Kadazans at the crossroads

Abba Father gave me a name - Kadazan - and am proud of it.

Abba Father gave my great, great, great Aki a name - Kadazan - and I am proud of it and so will my children and grandchildren . I come from a 'dusun' (orchard/village) but I am not a 'dusun'; rather I own it and work it (to be exact, God owns it and I am just a steward of it)

The Bible says that when God created the first human, He called him "Adam - אדם i.e. a human being (in my Mother tongue "KADAZAN") and he put him in charge of a 'dusun' where "Satan", through the woman, led him to sin against God. Satan overcame him and took over what God had entrusted to him, i.e. dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.He also lost his immortality for one of God's universal law is "the wages of sin is death". 

And to celebrate this 'victory' and as a reminder to Adam (Kadazan) that Satan was his 'Tuhan' he changed his name to "Dusun" (Orchard) and implanted it within his heart and mind, and that of his generation to come, that he, and his future generation, is no more "Adam (Kadazan) - the son of God" but "Dusun" - D(evil)'s son or rather 'slaves'.

Pro 23:7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: (So Satan wants us to think in our heart that we are actually not Kadazan, children of God - but Dusun; that is his deceptive strategy to dominate and control us, directly or indirectly)

But the 2nd Adam, the Anointed Savior (Jesus Christ), who became the Sacrificial Lamb (Huminundun) as an atonement (bohi) for Kadazan's sins, had already paid the ONCE FOR ALL SACRIFICE on the Cross at CALVARY when he declared, with His nailed arms outstretched on the Cross, "IT IS FINISHED" When we do the Sumazau with a "Keeehoi" we should be reminding Satan and his human alliances on earth that "IT IS FINISHED" because Jesus Christ had paid everything for us. When UNKO was established, the message from our ABBA FATHER was "tuhUN-KO" om okon ko kouvaan(Dusun)-ko, bavang (Sungei)-ko, hivan(Liwan)-ko,etc 

So who am I? I AM A KADAZAN - CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND PICTURE OF GOD (KINOINGAN), FELL INTO SINS BUT BY GOD'S GRACE IN OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST (Second Adam), WE HAVE BEEN SAVED AND BEING RESTORED TO THE POSITION THAT WAS INTENDED FOR US - CO-HEIRS AND CO-RULERS WITH JESUS CHRIST IN ETERNITY.

If you say, I am a dusun or anything less, I will definitely say, "Devil, IN JESUS NAME, GO TO HELL  I AM A KADAZAN - SON OF THE LIVING GOD. JESUS IS MY BOSS NOW!" MARANATHA!

All praise and Glory to Jesus Christ!

THE WAY FORWARD - but must BALIK KAMPUNG first!

MERDEKA, MERDEKA, MERDEKA .......IN JESUS NAME. AMEN

The only way towards unity amongst the various tribes of the Kadazan people, and indeed amongst the various denominations in His Government, is through bended knees of continuous, prevailing and committed supplications, prayers and repentance to the ONLY ONE True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Creator and Master of the Universe, who gave to man (Kadazan) His Word and Spirit (JESUS) as the Only Way, Truth and Life to Him.

The Kadazan knows Him as Kinoingan Minamangun, a loving and self-sacrificing Father revealing Himself as the Word of God who became man (Kadazan) (Huminundun) and offer Himself as “Bohi” (korban) for the redemptions of our sins for unless and until the inner man has been completely transformed in the likeness of Jesus Christ, whatever ever we do always has a hidden agenda that only promotes the kingdom of the world (Self) and of Satan and totally opposed to the Perfect Will of the Father and His Eternal Purpose for Mankind. (Kadazan)

In another 25 days, we will be celebrating our 47 years of independence from Colonial Rule when God had said to us, (TUH)UN KO, thus the first political party ever established in Sabah was appropriately named UNKO – United National Kadazan Organization – which was given the Divine Mandate, among others, To Unveil His Unknown Nations of (His) Kingdom Overseas but sad to say that this was sabotaged as those given the tasks were ill equipped and not very well grounded in the “inner-man”.

When Donald Stevens shouted in the KK (Jesselton) town padang, “Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka” (Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!), he was holding the very “CONSTITUTION” that outlined the vision, missions, instructions, directions, strategies and operational manual to run the newly independent Nation of Sabah, having about 55 per cent who had responded to the Father’s call for being His children – Kadazans! – the good-Spirited people (Neh 9:20) It was not just freedom from Colonial rule but also from the bondage of Satan, Sins, rebellion against the Father, Deception, Poverty, Racial Prejudices and Injustices or being consigned to self curse (Proverb 23:7a) as “Dusun (Orchard), Liwan (Valley), Sungei (River), Tuawon (Herb), and so on forever, but then why was no concerted effort made to “study, research, map out and communicate what was in the CONSTITUTION    which God had given to our leaders and religious teachers, priests, catechist, bishops, pastors, professors and scientists.

Kinoingan - Nunu kopizo komozon?

Gamut nopo do boos diti nopo nga : Ngaan toi id boos Ongilis, "Name" toi Malazu, "Nama". Boos "ki" nopo nga "kivaa" toi "having" dadi "ki-ngaan" nopo nga "kivaa do ngaan". "Kingaan-ngaan" nopo nga ih nointutunan toi noihaan do ginumuan do avasi toi kihobi mantad do tuhun toomod. "Kinoingan" nopo nga ih "noingaan" toi ih ki-ngaan di poinhobi mantad di susuvai toi "Name above all names". Id boos do Hebrew, "Kinoingan" nopo nga "ha-Shem"

"HaShem" is literally "The Name", הַשֵּׁם in Hebrew.  It's used by some religious Jews as a way of avoiding saying the name of God directly, which would be seen as disrespectful.  You may also see the name God written as "G-d" by American Jews; it's the same sort of thing.

God is given a many different names in the Torah.  "The" name is יְהוָה,  which is often given as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah".  (The latter is a Latinization.)  A better pronunciation would be "yehvah", but it's never actually read that way.  When you encounter it in text, you say "Adonai".

Adonai is אֲדֹנָי in Hebrew, literally "Lords".  (The pluralism is intended as a sign of respect, rather than indicating that there's more than one of them; it's like the royal "we".).  It's also sometimes written יי, roughly "YY", but still pronounced "Adonai".  

"Elohim" is also a plural, and "El" is another name for "God", literally meaning "power".  It's also used to refer to "gods" in general, but when "Elohim" means "God" it's the same kind of royal "we".  

They'll use all of them, like in the first of the Ten Commandments; "אָנֹכִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ", I am the Lord (Adonai) thy God (Elohecha, conjugated so that it's "thy god").  And it ends with "ינפ-לע םירחא םיהלא ךל-היהי אל", thou shalt have no other gods (elohohim) before me (ani, the same pronoun used for humans).

 source:http://askville.amazon.com/origin-divine-Hashem-familiar-names-God/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=8842186

Nokuo?

Tadau di baino, tadau kumoiso, 5hb Julai 2010; ogumu oh nadampot ku do minomuondom. Tuhun ko, iti no oh tuhu do blog ku diti. Nokuo tu pinihi ku ?

Mimang do kilati iti di taahom. Ontok nopo do ponimpuun zo Donald Stephens do paati politik di kumoiso nogi id North Borneo (Sabah), pinunganaan dioho ih do "United National Kadazan Organisation" toi "UNKO". Nookunan do somok naavi oh mamasok doid Sabah do ontok dino do pihion, onuon om dodizon dioho do bangsa toi tinau dioho oh Kadazan.

Nipi di aahom oh pomolotian?

Tadau di baino 4tv Kotuu 2010, tadau minggu, nakaambit zou do iso nipi di kivaa no do duvo sodop miaga ditia osusui id siibo:

Miampai di savo ku, minugad zikoi id panambazangan do Sangti Michael id Penampang, om tuminakad zikoi tuminanud di talun alun do mininsavat. Miaga do nakatanud nogi ih tobpinai ku Michael, nga kivaa do au songkuo isido kadansaan do maapanau tu noontok haid do 'stroke'. Kiva do minononsunud dogo do kivaa nogi do panambazangan koduvo, ih onini mantad di doguvang, ih buanon di paganakan di Lim (Tan Ah Sang) om panambazangan nopo diti nga okon ko tumanud do koubasanan do Roman Catholic.

Di potunai dagai do minuhi, nokito ku do maso todoon ih papas do sumampaping di talun-alun tagazo; nga kiva do sompuun kazu do poinhobong nadadi do susuzon. Ka doid ginavo ku, 'ta, oubat iti kazu, tu mangan ii ukado om iduo tu gontian do simin.' Dadi, kinamai ku no do minongukad om koidu no ih sontob tohomok, koohu po ih hugu. Paganu zou no do todsok om uviho kuno ih tu kiva do duvo ngopod hobi kaki ninau. Kouvi ku nopo ih, poingisano kuno ih nga kohivid no gisom do duminapas di padang id siibo om potuunai ku no do guminusa; nga kohoilan ku nopo nga maidhaid ih do minghuvid nga mazogazo ih, gisom do nohivid id bavang id doos tuunon di Emmanuel Tindahal. Ontok nopo dii nga nokihuzud ih bavang om koosi zou do ouhun ih tu kivaa do tudu ku do maganu di. Kokito ku no do minsazo nogi ih om gusa zou no do huminozog. Kadampot ku nopo ih, ovito ku no do minindisan,

Miaga ko songinan vogok tagazo do nopiumanan ku; nga okon ko panakaon nga gontian nogi, onuo ku no ih usin do noohu id tozibut ku do hihimo po ngopod ringgit om pataak kuno di songuhun. Ovito ku no ih do tumininda tu poinsuang do kalung. Tahib zou no di hamin ngaavi doid disan do bavang om koongou kuno ih songuhun mohoing tondu, ih Joguim (savo di Leduin Mobijohn), do minuoot do songkuo nokobohi ku om simba zou no do, 'himo ngopod ringgit'. Miaga ko noindadaman oh hoogo, ' na, nokuo tu au nu bohizon iho dogo?,' ka di tiuot dosido. Aiso do sisimba ku nga potihombusai ku no do minamanau.

Koikot zou no id nizonon di Kuntai, nga ogumu kopizo id tazu disido, dadi noikot ngaavi do minogusig; habus no isido miampai ngaavi di tuhun pakakalaja disido om igitai no dioho ih tasu ngaavi di. Tahib zou no do poinsaan di kalung. "Ta, nunu ino," ka disido, " vuhanut do mahasong," kangku. "Ogumu po doiho id bavang," kangku do minongoput. "Ba, tahib no," ka disido.

Di mamaso zou do tumahib, tood om tingkukub zou no; kopiumanai ku no do mangagos do takod di tasu (miga huminabus mantad di kalung) om ovito ku no doid disan bavang di tuunon di Liuba (doos id hamin za id Kg. Nampasan) om miaga ko kiva vagu do iso po kalung do pisasaan ku om id suang nopo dii nga mondou; nonuan zou do pandatan apasagi nga miaga do tinoodo mantad binulang. Kivaa do toondom ku do momohonod di duvo binatang - tasu om mandou - tu akanon. Onuo ku no ngaavi ih kalung di om pohosodo ku no id vaig doid tatanga do bavang id tuunon dagai id Kg. Nampasan. Ontok nopo dii nga au songkuo do aahom ih vaig dii. Nimangan ku tuduho miampai di pandatan do mooi do ohosod om ohonod ngaavi ih. Ontok nopo do miningkuluod ih mondou, minongokot daa do pahad ku nga au ih nokosobot tu poinsuang id kalung. Kohonod om kapatai nopo ngaavi ih, koposik zou no. Au zou nakalati do nunu oh komozon, nga osianan zou om oluo oh ginavo ku tu nohonod ku ih tasu om mondou - tanda naku do tavasi toi talaat: kakal zou do mokianu do kointahangan mantad do Kinoingan.