In Nunuk Ragang origin narratives within Kadazan‑Dusun cosmology, famine follows social disorder. To relieve the hunger of the people Kinoingan (creator) or, in some variants, Suminundu sacrifices their daughter. The maiden (called Ponompuan in genealogical accounts and known widely as Huminodun) offers herself; according to the legend her body becomes the source of cultivated plants. After her sacrifice she re‑manifests in the paddy/jars (described in sources as a resurrection or emergence, including a named form Bambazon/Bambarayon), and her spirit founds ritual offices and practices that sustain the community. The episode provides the mythic origin of rice cultivation, the bobohizan priesthood, and the Kaamatan harvest festival and Unduk Ngadau commemoration.
Sources do not provide a detailed pre‑sacrifice physical portrait beyond identifying her as a maiden. In the post‑sacrifice account her spirit is described as reappearing among jars and paddy: seven maidens (including the central daughter) emerge from jars, with the principal figure associated with the largest jar. Contemporary commemorative practices (the Unduk Ngadau pageant) celebrate her attributes—bravery, grace, strength and beauty—but those evaluative traits are presented in the sources as commemorative honors rather than detailed supernatural physiognomy.
Legend attributes generative potency to Huminodun: her sacrificed body produces staple crops—explicitly given in the Nunuk Ragang account as statements that her flesh yields rice, her head the coconut, her bones tapioca, her toes ginger, her teeth maize and her knees yams. Her voice is reported in the narrative as issuing from the plants to Kinoingan in the episode that follows the sacrifice, and her spirit is said to re‑manifest from the paddy and jars. She is also credited with transmitting ritual knowledge: the spirit of Huminodun is said to have founded the bobohizan and taught incantation, rituals and customary laws (including the law of sogit), as well as ritual arts such as bamboo‑beating and the sumazau dance.
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