Salaam, readers.
Kaamatan
Harvest Festival is around the corner (May 30th and 31st). For all of us (Sabahan, and Malaysian at
large), this is the moment we are all have been waiting for. Surely, there are
hundreds of celebrations taking place every month all over
the world, and Kaamatan Harvest Festival is one of them. The main highlight of
this event is Unduk Ngadau. As mentioned by Mrs. Angie Boilis (blog), "The Unduk Ngadau Queen selection is
never meant to be just another of those Beauty Queen contest. Beyond
physical beauty, concealed in piety and attired gracefully in full traditional
costumes of her ethnic community, the Unduk Ngadau must satisfy the judges that
in her most natural self, she portrays the best virtues and potentials to
resemble the beatified Huminodun, the Kadazandusun Queen of love and
compassion, the ultimate symbol of perfection and purity as reflected in the
ancient Bobohizan’s (Kadazandusun Priestess) rinait or
mantras."
