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DEATH AND DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD 587 and perhaps Lagalag and Big NAMBAS. The fear of ghosts combined With a sense of dependence upon them is an attitude found alike in north and south, though in the north the practice of making offerings and prayers to the dead is perhaps more highly developed than it is in the south ; while the belief in an underground Land of the Dead seems to be common to all districts, as is also the very name of this land in its variant forms Embw, Iarnbi, Hambi, and Lambie, the only districts in which this name is not found in some form being Mewun and Big -3 NAMBAS. In these districts, however there is the common T belief in a being called Temes Savsap or Lisevsep, and her ,5: association with a geometrical ï¬Ågure, a belief which they share ‘ with both Seniang and'Lamburnbu. A t 1 17 t 1 .x.>|?.&3A;1“i“‘
