Happy Harvest Festival
This is an event which falls on the 30th & 31st of May each year.
What had started as a religious ritual in the pagan time, involving God (Kinoingan), his sacrificed daughter (Huminodun) and thus the rice spirit (Bambazon), had turn into a cultural, secular festival.
The ritual, in essence gives thanks to god and appease with the rice spirit for another bountiful harvest the next season.
This deep culture is the soul of the native kadazan/dusun/murut group and sub-group of people of Sabah and through this they do find themselves.
In recent time, other traditional items such as food, sport and houses are showcased in this festival and organised by the Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association. The festival concludes with the selection of a beauty queen, symbolising Huminodun.
To The Native Group of Sabahans, Kopivosian Tadau Do Kaamatan.
May the force be with you.
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