Unity is Strength 2024 Peace Haggadah_For Digital Viewing.pdf
The asmat creation_story
1. Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture,part 2 "The Asmat Creation Story: Fumeripits creates People from Trees" By:JESSICA CEBALLOS, 2-1-12 per.1, Culture and Geography Source:Caglayan,Ph.D.,Emily "The Asmat". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitian Museum of Art, 2000-- http://www.met museum.org/toah/hd/asma/hd_asma.htm (october 2004); and Mr.Ruben Meza, 2012
2. According to Asmat tradition:Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth,and he also created the first men's ceremonial house [called] a jeu.
3. Fumeripits would spend his days dancing along the beach,but after awhile grew tired of being alone.
4. So he chopped down a number of trees, carved them into humans figures, and placed them inside the jeu.
5. However, since the sculptures were inanimate, Fumeripits was still unhappy. He then decided to create a drum, and chopped down another tree, hollwed out the center, and streched a piece of lizard skin over the top.
6. As he began to play the drum, the human figures miraculously came to life, thier elbows came unstuck from their knees, and they began to dance.
7. This is how Fumeripits made people from trees. And the first people were Asmat.
![According to Asmat tradition:Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth,and he also created the first men's ceremonial house [called] a jeu.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)