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Originally Posted by ariel
And I thought that the fight for the name “Karud” was diabolically intense:-))))))
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Ariel:
This thread will simmer for years and could well end up with hundreds of posts! The
kar'd was just one weapon style. Ron has opened up both
kris and
barung for discussion, and we have not even started on
barung yet.
You will notice some discussion of the term
sarimanok here (interpreted as "beautiful bird"). That discussion extended into its own thread, which has indeed been a spirited debate. Ron has proposed that
sarimanok actually refers to a mythical chicken/rooster that appears in the folk lore of the Maranao people of Mindanao, and by extension concludes that what Cato described as a
kakatua pommel on
kris and
barung is actually a depiction of the mythical
sarimanok. The term
manok is widely used in the Philippines to refer specifically to a chicken. However, if we use the more generic translation of
sarimanok as meaning beautiful bird, then the bird in question could be a
kakatua. And so the beat goes on!
Ian.