Show savage TL savage islanders of the south pacific believe that the world is a cochar nut shell of enormous dimensions at the top of which is a single aperture communicating with the apper air where human beings dwell at the very bottom of this imaginary shell is a etem gradually tapering to a point which represents the beginning of all things this point is a spirit or demon without human form choso whoso name is root of all existence by him tha entire fabric of creation is sustained in the interior of the cocoanut coco anut shell at its very bottom lives a female demoa so narrow is the space into which she u crowded that she is obliged to sit forever with knee and chin touching her name is the very beginning and from her are sprung numerous spirits they inhabit five different floors into which the great cocoanut coco anut is divided from certain of these spirits is descended the islanders regarding themselves as the only real men and women were formerly accustomed to regard strangers as evil spirits in the guise of humanity whom they killed when they coald offe ruay them a wn aces |