Origin of Death Stories and Frazer

Frazer traveled throughout the British Empire and collected many stories of the origin of the death myth. He then devised four main classifications into which they could be grouped: the story of the two messengers, the storing of the waxing and waning moon, the story of the serpent and his cast skin, and the story of the banana. The most interesting one of these is the story of the banana and banana stalk. This story popular among the native of the Nias and Poso islands, two islands apart from Indonesia. The story is based on a banana and its stalk. The banana bears its fruit on a stalk which dies after bearing. This gave the people of the island that humans inherited the same properties of the banana. They live a short life and die shortly after giving birth. Their creation myth said that the creator would love a gift down on a rope every day. One day he lowered a stone, but the first humans refused the stone. So the creator lowered down a banana next. The first humans then ate the banana. After the creator told them that they would now inherit the properties of the banana. They will perish after giving birth instead of living eternally like other animals.