A paper prepared for the session "Children of Kilibob", Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania annual meetings, Kauai, Hawaii, 21-24 March 1990.
Working draft: not to be cited without consent of the authors.
pp. 1-8, appendices pp. 1-27
Cataloguer's note: Two photographs from this collection are closely related to this article (12.05.0700 and 12.05.0701). Several other photographs (12.05.0695 to 12.05.0699 and 12.05.0702 to 12.05.0710) are loosely related.
Scope and Content: This article discusses Namor, the ancestral god of the Kilenge people. The text provides an overview of the history of belief in Namor and the changing role he plays in the lives of the people today. Most people believe in the Christian God as creator as opposed to Namor at the time of the writing of this article and only some still remember and tell Namor stories. The article includes several appendices of transcribed Namor stories.