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Some senior visitors might still recall the Bidayuh Dragon Doctor
of Kampung Kakeng, Serian, late 1970s.
He cured all manners of ills of people
in and around his village and from other districts
as well as from outside Sarawak.
However, he's not the focus of the story here.
Rather than looking at the Dragon Doctor's exploits,
I would like our visitors to re-visit our own personal spiritual sanctum (office lah)
to re-view the basis of our assumed relationship with God the Almighty.
I intend to do this through a simple review of an adapted story of the Dreaded Dragon
which was told in the film called "The Dragonslayer"
and briefly reviewed in yellowtimes.org
A long, long, long, time ago in an olden Bidayuh village
in between Kampung Kakeng and Kampung Riih Daso, Serian
there lives an evil dragon in dark dirty cave.
(I tell the story in the present tense intentianally
so as to give the story a sense of immediacy and hopefully of relevance too).
The dragon demands an annual tribute of a virgin.
As long as the villagers bring this sacrifice,
the dragon does not bother the villagers and townspeople.
Then there emerges a hero in the shape of a young man
of Kampung Pic(h)in, near Tebakang Dayak (eh, belum tukar nama lagi lah).
Our hero has befriended one Dayung Timongón from Kampung Kakeng.
One year, soon enough, the hero's girl friend is selected
for the annual sacrifice to the dreaded dragon.
The young man of Kampung Pichin cannot bear to lose his loved one,
his cutie of Kampung Kakeng.
Not to a dirty cave dragon at any rate, he says to himself.
He enters the cave and bravely slays the brutal dragon.
Next day, jubilant villagers pull the lifeless beast out of the cave.
The people of Kampung Pic(h)in, Tebakang Dayak, Jenan, Bantang, Bunga, Barú, Riih,
and as far as Taiee, Igem Baki and Tian (Murud & Kawan)
particularly those who have lost their daughters,
celebrate the dreaded dragon's death.
Then a priest appears from downriver Serian.
To cut the long story short,
he reminds one and all to give thanks to God the Almighty
for the killing of the beast.
Now, that's an assumption isn't it?
That is an assumption that comes out of a perception of the ESP kind
(i.e. it's a perception that's sans auditory/hearing, visual/seeing, tactile/touch, taste, and smell)
Let's think about it.
Importance of this exercse is to consider an answer to the question:
"Can our ills be cured by apparently skewed assumptions?"
Some of us may have been fortunate enough to have seen the story in film
of course coming out of Hollywood or some other Westernized production studios.
They may like to, and hereby invited to, share their reception of or reaction
to the story as originally told in the film.
But for the benefit of visitors who have yet to see the film
it is to be hoped that the above story, adapted to add a local flavor to it,
can further stir up their already wild imagination
as they explore and navigate the nooks and corners of the Spinning Panggah,
particularly at this peculiar time of the year.
(Not too long ago, 1st of June used to be entered in the Official Almanac as Dayak Day)
Have a nice day, and
a Happy Gawai Dayak Day too.
Amang Bjié
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