Huminodun

Huminodun is a character in a myth of the Dusun people. According to legend, Huminodun was a maiden sacrificed to feed her famine-stricken people, which subsequently became the roots of the harvest festival of Kaamatan and the beauty pageant of Unduk Ngadau, celebrated annually in the month of May by the Kadazan-Dusun community in the state of Sabah and the federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia.

The sacrifice story of Huminodun is also considered neither a folklore nor a legend, but more of a religious observance of the Kadazan-Dusun of Sabah and Labuan. It forms the origin of the community earlier religion of Momolianism as well as the basis of rice planting rituals performed by the bobohizan (female shaman) for a continuous bountiful harvest and the significance of rice and spirit worship in the traditional cultural beliefs among the Kadazan-Dusun community.

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