期刊名称：International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
印刷版ISSN：1823-6243
出版年度：2006
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：29-50
出版社：Penerbit USM
摘要：This paper concerns reading symbols that had appeared in the “Tambunan Dusun Origin Myth” published in the Journal of Malaysia Branch Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) by Williams (1960). As Campbell (1988: 5) said, “We should read myths. They teach us that we can turn inward, and we will begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts—but if you read the other one, you begin to get the message.” In other words, myth is a manifestation of symbolic images. The symbolic field is based on the experiences of people in a particular community, at that particular time and place.
