Sacred relic chronicles Pahu village’s past


Journeying through time: Bangkuai taking a closer look at the 84 straight short lines (pic below) carved on one of the stones. The Pahu community believe that their ancestors fought a horrible war to claim the village as their rightful home and evidence of that is recorded on the ‘sogindai’.

KOTA KINABALU: Kampung Pahu’s history is carved in stone.

Within this village some 80km away from Kota Kinabalu, vertical stones, known locally as sogindai, are where warriors would once hang up the heads of their enemies.

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