User:Nyansama02/KDMR-related things

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The native calendar
I've yet to find any sources on any given epoch, but it seems that decade-long cycles are of importance to the Lotud Dusun. Dusun month reckoning can be either arbitrary or based on lunar observation. Regardless, the names of the days of the month are always based on the phases of the moon. The Kimaragang, for example, use the momiwulan system, bearing similarities to the Islamic Hijri calendar. The Kadazandusun have a seven-day week with name of the days based on the life cycle of a butterfly, and names for the twelve months in a year based on the phases of paddy-harvesting. Besides the Malay loanword minggu, the Rungus have native koturuan and songkobodian to mean "week".

There are no records of a Murut calendar of sorts, as of now.

On queerness
Despite the common thought in mainstream Austronesian academia that the role of traditional priestesses can be taken up by those who are born male, no such traditional occurrence has been found in North Borneo. The closest (albeit modern) example to this is Adam Gontusan, who however does not identify as anything else than his assigned gender at birth. This should instead be perceived as a break in tradition of Penampang Kadazan bobohizan being primarily female.

What there is however, is a measly quote from Williams, who states that "male transvestites are said on occasion to mark assumption of their special status through use of [...] cosmetics." There are no supporting sources to reflect the true status of effeminate men in Dusun society, i.e. if Williams meant the word "special" in a positive or pejorative sense. Evans also mentions of an Api, a "hermaphrodite of Tombulion."

There also seem to be words for effeminate men in some Southwest Sabahan languages, including bonduai in Papar Kadazan and gonduan in Penampang Kadazan. Related words are Kimaragang pagaawon "a person of one sex that looks like the opposite sex" as well as Rungus podsoluvan which can refer to either a bisexual, hermaphrodite or homosexual person, or a transvestite.