The highest ground between the Himalaya and New Guinea, in the campaign board's words, and the first mark a shipmaster raises off this coast.
By the campaign board, the people who live below it hold it to be where the dead go, and they do not climb it. This belief is written down in the nineteenth century (recalled) and is carried back to 1200 only as a likely continuity, not as a fact; the ethnic names are later. No priest, shrine, estate or market is attached to the mountain.
Who holds it
- Title
- No priest or keeper is known; the farming peoples below the mountain
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The belief is recorded by European visitors of the nineteenth century among the people later called Dusun (recalled, not re-read). Nothing dated tells what the peoples of the Kinabalu country believed in 1200.
What it holds
- Nothing is shown: a mountain held sacred, not a holding
How things stand that morning
Not shown. The mountain stands; what the peoples below it believed on 1 January 1200 is a likely continuity and no more.
Threats
- None recorded
Places of note
- Kinabalu: The mountain; position as on the campaign board.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board marks the mountain 'secure' as a place; the belief about it is the part that is a likely continuity.
Evidence: The campaign board and later ethnography only; nothing is dated to 1200.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A point only: the mountain, not a holding.
Sources and studies
- The OMNIA board (September 2026) note for this place: a lead only, not a source
- Background knowledge of Southeast Asian history (Wolters; Hall; Bellwood; Scott; Junker; Reid), recalled and not re-read in this pass
- The isa regional brief (ISA_BRIEF.md) and assignment ise.txt
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.