Legendary Place Names: Coastal Micro-Toponomastics in Alor through the Lens of an Abui Myth

• Main Author: Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lamòling; Toponyms in Legends and Myths; Diachronic Toponomastics and Anthropological Linguistics; Coastal Abui Place Names; Coastal Micro-Toponomastics in Alor
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80397; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40558; http://ical13.ling.sinica.edu.tw/Call_for_Papers.htm
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reconstructs a number of Abui (Papuan) place names and micro-toponyms from the coastal area of the Alor Island (South-East Indonesia) through the analysis of a legend about two gods of the Abui traditional religion and the replacement of the first with the second one. The myth appears as...