Yo Lopati, 1966, on Akoon:Abubu is Kakerisa.  "Kake" means to measure.  "Risa" means to dance the war dance (cakalele).Akoon is TounusaBetween Amet and the site of the old village of Akoon.*****Amet is Samasuru.Nalahia is Risapori.Leinitu=Sila in Beinusa (or Leinusa?).Titawai is Lesinusa.Lano is the name of the tribesmen of the interior of Seram.  They used to raid Nusa Laut, and take captives.Wakano.  Kapitan Matatula is Mataaru.  This stone is at Wahutete (Waihutete), near Amet.  A little beyond the stream. That is the Wakano forest.  Matatula landed there.  He left his "kakoya" there,and it became a kakoya (pandanus) tree until this day. He also thrust in his spear and parang (sword),and you can see the marks to this day.  Also,at Haumatomanu, on the beach on the way to Amet, you can see his footprints in the rocks.  There Matatula jumped down onto the rock from a higher rock, and left his footprints, complete with toe-prints visible to this day.Tounusa. From Wahutete, Mataaru made his way to Tounusa.  There, in the midst of a forest at the very center of the island, you will find a patch of white sand.  There is also a clump of dwarf sago trees.He journeyed up from Wahutete to Henaheru, and thence on to Maketixa.  The Lano from Seram all came to do battle with him.  He cut sago fronds,and placed them so that his enemies would slip and fall on them. But he was one man alone, and they were many.  He hit upon the strategy of wearing a mirror on his shield. That is how he got the name of "Kapitan Mata Empat."The reason the clump of sago is dwarfed is because during the fray, the warriors cut the trunks in two with their swift parangs.The Matatulas come from Nolot, Saparua.Here is a history of the Lopati family.  There were three brothers who sailed from Ambon. They were Patisuji, Pati-intan, and Paramata.  They sailed from Ambon by Pakatora, and arrived at Batu-Pintu, Boi, where they landed at that parcel of land called "Lano."  Lano is where the steep slope is.Pati-intan and Paramata sailed on, leaving Patisuji there.  He lived up on the mountain, from where you can see down into the town of Ambon.  That place is named "Amano," and there is a "pamali" stone there, about three yards long.  Amano is a level spot, perched on the cliffs.Patisuji lived there alone without a wife, because there weren't as yet any people living there.  One night, he was out hunting with his gun in the forest. He lay down to rest near a clump of "tebu merah" reeds.  It was crystal-clear moonlight.  It seemed to him that he saw a woman darting back and forth among the "tebu" leaves.  She had very long hair.  He made no sudeen movement, but watched,and crept nearer and nearer to the clump of tebu.  Just as dawn was about to break, he saw the woman enter into a tebu stalk.  He marked the stalk she entered in his mind, and in the morning, he cut it down.  He trimmed off the leaves, and started to cut the sections from the bottom up.  One, two, three, four.  But as he was about to cut into the fifth, he heard a voice: "Potong, ingatang beta!"  (Be careful not to cut me!).  It was the voice of the woman.  He cut the section open carefully, and found the woman inside.  Then he married her.He was married to her for a long time,but never heard her speak.  She bore him three children, and still never spoke a word.Then one day, Kapitan Latuperisa came.  By that evening, Lopati and Latuperisa were friends.  One said, "Let's go fishing."They went, and Patisuji caught a big "singaro."Now because he had never heard his wife's voice, he designed a plot whereby he might trick her into speaking.  He cut the fish open, bled it into the canoe, and rolled in the blood.  Latuperisa went and told his wife that Lopati had caught a fish, and the fish had struck him, and he didn't know if Lopati were alive or dead.She came,and cried, and said, "In this world, I have no relatives!  If he dies, who will keep me and the children?"Lopati felt pity, and got up.  Seeing she had been tricked, his wife became resentful.  Lopati had hidden his wife's wings inside the bamboo ridge-pole of the house.  Ever after this trick, she kept asking her children where their father had hidden her wings.  When they said they didn't know, she begged them to search.  She felt hurt that in a family, one member could trick another, and wanted to return.  To disappear.Then one day, the eldest child and his father were reparing the thatch.  As he was playing, he discovered his mother's wings in a section of the ridge-pole.  When his father saw it, he warned him not to touch "those things in the bamboo," that they were his mother's wings.When his mother asked him about her wings again, he opened the secret to her.  On Friday, she swept the yard clean,and piled the trash in a heap.  The father had gone into the forest to cut sago leaves for thatch.  In the late afternoon, she told her children that she was going home.  She said not to worry on her account, but that she couldn't live with their father because he was a liar. She said that if they would stand at the place where the trash was burned every Tuesday, they would receive their gifts from her.  And she made the children promise to find the end of the string to unwrap these gifts.  Then she lit the fire,and went up with the smoke.On Tuesday, their gift came.  It was a "baju," which is still at the "rumah tuah Lopati" at Tuhaha to this day.  It is long, and light-blue in color. The sleeves are seemless, and there are four of them.  The neck is round. The insects have not eaten it.  It used to be at Tete Ucu's, but it is now at Bu Minggu's.When the gift came, the father was away in the forest.  The two children were to eager to wait for him to return and help them find the end of the string, so they broke it, and the coming of the gifts was broken, and no more ever came.The spear is also at Bu Minggu's.  Instead of a shaft, the spear has a tubular part that curves down.  When Patisuji went with his dog, he would drive his spear into the ground,and water wouldcome out the open end, so his dog could drink.  Those were the days of darkness.  You can see the holes to this day.  They are about like coconut shells in size.Sometime after their mother was gone, the two older brothers became hunters. They accused their younger brother of eating the pig's liver.  He was disgraced, and taking a bamboo cane and a bit of saltin a wrapper, he fled in shame.  He arrived at Tuhaha.  There you can also find many Lopatis.  The Lopatis of Haria and Ruhusela*****.  At Tuhaha, they are Teun-Puenpeiwai (pei=beside, wai=stream).  This is because when the younger brother arrived at Tuhaha, he was afraid, and hid beside the stream.At that time, there was an ancestor named Lohanapesi, who went there to beat the sago.  As he worked, he felt he was being observed.  He called out, "Hey!  If you are a bad person, never mind!  But if you are good, come on out!"So Lopati came out, and said, "I am not a bad person."  Then he showed him his cane and his salt, and told him of his trouble with his older brothers.  He cast his salt and his cane aside.  The salt became the stream, and the cane became the clump of bamboo to this day.His "ina" is Tuni, the same as ours.The brother that came to Akoon was Lukas Kombasa Lopati.  Kombasa is a pagan name.  He became the "guru Injil" Lukas, and went first to Sirisori Sarani. There he married a Miss Kisauli.  From Sirisori, he went to a place called Hutoru, near Porto, Haria, so called because he had 30 followers.  From there, he journeyed on to Aboru.  There his wife passed away, and he married a woman named Albertina, of the Tuankota family.  From there he went to Akoon.  Yo Lopati is 13 generations from him.  Her grandchildren, very small children in 1966, are 15 generations from him.The brother that went to Tuhaha was Raheratu*****.  The brother that remained at Haria was Lekatrole.Pati-intan and Pati-parmata returned to Ambon.  The De Queldju and De Fretes families are descended from them.Mairisa is a ghost of Abubu.  There was a man named David Leasiwal.  His wife was Henderina Tahapari, of Akoon, and his daughter was maria.  Mairisa walks like a human, but one leg/foot is a chicken foot.One day David went fishing with his cast-net.  At about 11:00 P.M., before he reached home, Mairisa came on the scene with his catch of fish, and called Maria to serve him his supper.  Just like David.  Maria had a son, aged about seven months.  He was a big, fat, baby boy.  Maria went to serve the devil, thinking he was her father.  She left her baby alone.  After the meal, she went in to look at her son.  About that time, her real father came home, and she found the baby dead, with its head turned around facing backwards.Akoon has a pela with a village now vanished.  There was village on Seram named Apisano.  There is now only one family left of Apisano,and they are living at Rumalait.  Of this family, the parents are dead, and there are only three children.  Yo Lopati was on a comittee to investigate the pela.  The story goes like this:Once the people of Akoon went to beat sago (ba-balo) on Seram.  Tete Tom Samalo went to work near Apisano at a plot of land named Ilaloko.  (Sabastian has the written record).  This was about 1863. There was a woman of Apisano named Niniolo, who went fishing in the stream (anisar) with her son-in-law, Tikolo-taina*****.  At that time, there were headhunters in the area from the interior, and they had spotted her son-in-law.  She saw the headhunters watching her son-in-law.  She was concealed,and she was afraid to call out for fear she would betray her position.  She made her way back to the beach to seek help,and found the shelter (walang) of Tom Samalo and the others from Akoon.  They hid her under a sago-leaf basket (timbil), and went to aid her son-in-law, but they were too late.The place of the timbil is still there to this day.  You can still see its shape.The Akoon people went out to capture the headhunters, and succeeded in siezing Niniolo's son-in-law's head.Returning, they found the men of Apisano out looking for Niniolo, and told them it was no longer necessary to search because she was hidden under their timbil.Akoon blood had been shed in the struggle with the headhunters.  The king of Apisano said that because the men of Akoon had been willing to fight for his people, that they should vow a "pela."  This they did, and that pela is a pela of blood.Page 221 (3 of 3).The place where the woman, Niniolo, was hidden under the timbil was Ulaloko.  Apisano is now overgrown with forest, and the people of Seram don't like to go there.  The ruins of the church are still there.In the old days,there were no villages,and every family had their own dwelling place.  (mahuli=such a group?)Taliapone Watimena was also a kapitan of Akoon.Nusa Laut is called Nusa Hulawan (Golden Island) because all villages are Sarani, and none are Muslim.In Akoon, they used to use the type of flute that is blown from the end (mouth), and not the type they use now, which is blown cross-wise....Page break.