Ebu Gogo are a group of human-like creatures that appear in the mythology of the people of the island of Flores, Indonesia. In the Nage language of central Flores ebu means grandmother and gogo means 'he who eats anything'.
The Nage people of Flores describe the Ebu Gogo as having been able walkers and fast runners around 1.5m tall. They reportedly had wide and flat noses, broad faces with large mouths and hairy bodies. The females also had "long...
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Ebu Gogo are a group of human-like creatures that appear in the mythology of the people of the island of Flores, Indonesia. In the Nage language of central Flores ebu means grandmother and gogo means 'he who eats anything'.
The Nage people of Flores describe the Ebu Gogo as having been able walkers and fast runners around 1.5m tall. They reportedly had wide and flat noses, broad faces with large mouths and hairy bodies. The females also had "long, pendulous breasts." They were said to have murmured in what was assumed to be their own language and could reportedly repeat what was said to them in a parrot-like fashion.
The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo were traditionally, according to the journal Nature, attributed to monkeys, which do not exist on Flores but live on islands from where the current Flores population may have come. These legends may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.
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