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	Ebu Gogo - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ebu Gogo is a human-like creature (or race of creatures) which appears in the mythology of the people of the island of Flores, Indonesia, of similar mythological form to the leprechaun or elf.
		The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo are somewhat detailed and, like Hawaii's menehunes, Scandinavia's tomtar and dwarfs, they may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.
		It is held by the people of Flores that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Dutch trading ships some 300 years ago, and some hold that they survived as recently as 100 years ago but are now no longer seen.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ebu_Gogo (643 words)

	Ebu Gogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ebu Gogo is a human-like creature (or race of creatures) which appears in the mythology of the people of the island of Flores, Indonesia, of similar form to the leprechaun or elf.
		The people of Flores believe that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships over 400 years ago, and some hold that they survived as recently as 100 years ago but are now no longer seen.
		Archaeologists are planning further investigations of Flores, including caves where the Ebu Gogo are said to have lived recently, and thus may shed light on this question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ebu_Gogo (639 words)

	Home floresiensis
		When the ebu gogo took the fibre into the cave, the villagers threw in a firebrand to set it alight: all the occupants were killed … except perhaps for one pair, who fled into the deepest forest, and whose descendants may be living there still.
		It’s about the right height for the smaller ebu gogo Forth was told about – though the larger ones, at around 1.5m, were comparable in size to some of the local men, and it does not appear to have the powerful build that features in the stories.
		Ebu gogo are said to have been stupid, possibly apes, incapable of true speech, and fearful of fire.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /marek.kohn/flores.html (2958 words)

	Could 'Hobbit' Species Still Exist? Villagers Speak Of Small, Hairy Ebu Gogo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The villagers say that the Ebu Gogo raided their crops, which they tolerated, but decided to chase them away when the Ebu Gogo stole - and ate - one of their babies.
		Out ran the Ebu Gogo, singed but not fried, and were last seen heading west, in the direction of Liang Bua, where we found the Hobbit, as it happens.
		The women Ebu Gogo had extremely pendulous breasts, so long that they would throw them over their shoulders, which must have been quite a sight in full flight.
	www.rense.com /general58/exist.htm (866 words)

	AsianWeek.com
		Curious, I asked my informant about the “Ebu Gogo.” He smiled, and we agreed that it was similar to the West’s “boogie monster.” However, there was one difference — he claimed that the Ebu Gogo had actually once lived just outside that very village.
		What the Ebu Gogo did not know, however, was that the villagers had soaked the clothes in cooking fuel and lit a small fire in the last packet of clothes before handing it up.
		The Ebu Gogo were burned alive in the cave, and that was the end of their existence outside the village.
	news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=15802da4a232646e1492ea72a2a624e4 (813 words)

	Gogo Vacations
		Gogo Dodo is a character from the animated television series ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
		The approach of the Ebu Gogo article is to fit the the cycle of Ebu Gogo stories into a mythical framework and then discuss their possible relationship to the recent discoveries of homo floresiensis.
		::"The ebu gogo were short - about a metre tall - long-haired, potbellied, with ears that stuck out, walking with a slightly awkward gait, and had longish arms and fingers.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/69/gogo-vacations.html (987 words)

	[mythfolk] ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY article on Flores hobbits--Gregory Forth,
		The fact is that the category ebu gogo and traditions concerning this creature belong to the Nage, a culturally and linguistically distinct population residing well over 100 kilometres to the east (which is a long distance on a mountainous, economically undeveloped island like Flores).
		Spirits, hominoids and hobbits However much ebu gogo might recall Homo floresiensis (or vice versa), it is therefore clear that the first figure equally resembles characters that are generally considered to belong to myth and fantasy.
		Also, while Roberts says ebu gogo were 'about a metre tall', most Nage describe the creatures as between one and 1.25 metres, and some claim their height did not differ significantly from that of modern Florinese (who are, however, considerably shorter than most Europeans).
	www.mail-archive.com /mythfolk@yahoogroups.com/msg00190.html (4499 words)

	Ebu gogo - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters
		The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo were traditionally, according to Nature journal, attibuted to monkeys which don't exist on Flores but were known on other islands from where current Flores population comes.
		They are somewhat detailed and, like Hawaii's menehunes, Scandinavia's tomtar and dwarfs, they may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.
		It is held by the people of Flores that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships over 400 years ago, and some hold that they survived as recently as 100 years ago but are now no longer seen.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Ebu_gogo (702 words)

	Ebu Gogo - Real-life “Hobbit” discovered - Occult Investigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The villagers call the creature Ebu Gogo and legends suggest that it survived as recently as one hundred years ago, if not even more recently.
		Also, Ebu Gogo was said to be able to repeat words spoken to it, much like a parrot.
		Oh, there are even legends that suggest that Ebu Gogo interbred with certain villages, and that people in those villagers share some of their traits.
	www.timboucher.com /old/2004/10/28/ebu-gogo-real-life-hobbit-discovered (459 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Stalking the wild ebu gogo
		In the current issue of Anthropology Today, there is a great article by Greg Forth (University of Alberta), covering the ebu gogo legend, and the impact of the Liang Bua discoveries on the local peoples of Flores.
		However much ebu gogo might recall Homo floresiensis (or vice versa), it is therefore clear that the first figure equally resembles characters that are generally considered to belong to myth and fantasy.
		For Forth, the assumption that ebu gogo is "just another myth" is tantamount to assuming that "small-scale, non-Western societies are incapable of distinguishing empirical categories, the objects of ordinary intuition, from fantastic images dictated by religious tradition" (ibid.).
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/flores/forth_2005_ebu_gogo.html (1186 words)

	Bigfoot Forums > Dutch sailors hear of little hairy people
		According to Roberts, the villagers claimed their ancestors endured the Ebu Gogo's habits until the short, long-haired, long-armed, pot-bellied creatures snatched a baby, taking it back to their cave.
		Out ran the Ebu Gogo, singed but not fried, and were last seen heading due west, in the direction of Liang Bua cave [where Homo floresiensis was first discovered]," according to Roberts.
		He says local legend has it that the Ebu Gogo were capable of limited language and able to mimic Indonesian phrases verbatim.
	www.bigfootforums.com /lofiversion/index.php/t7855.html (594 words)

	The Most Credible Cryptids
		The living descendants of these dwarfish upright people are called the Ebu Gogo by the local people.
		They have said the living Ebu Gogo are still seen.
		But the wish of the Ebu Gogo not to be treated as a specimen to be bound, tormented, and deprived of its life deserves our respect.
	home.att.net /~mhall.profiles (1065 words)

	Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » How Ebu Gogo might have gone extinct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Another distinguishing element to the story is that it ends with the villagers killing most or all of the Ebu Gogo.
		According to local stories it was villagers, not some natural disaster, that provided the catastrophic event that led to the Ebu Gogo’s extinction.
		Kua and other village elders said their ancestors - sick of the Ebu Gogo’s constant scavenging - chased the creatures into a cave high on the volcano, then handed them bales of straw, which the creatures thought was a gift to keep them warm.
	orbis-quintus.net /blog/index.php?p=633 (387 words)

	Hobbits? We've Got A Cave Full (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The locals' descriptions of Ebu Gogo as about a metre tall, with pot bellies and long arms match the features of a new species of human "hobbits" whose bones were recently unearthed by Australian and Indonesian researchers in a different part of Flores in a cave known as Liang Bua.
		The unexpected discovery of this tiny Homo floresiensis, who existed until at least 12,000 years ago at Liang Bua, before being apparently wiped out by a volcanic eruption, was hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds in decades when it was announced in October.
		The villagers tolerated the stealing of food until the Ebu Gogo began to snatch babies and eat them too.
	www.rense.com /general60/cave.htm (674 words)

	When Did 'Hobbit' Humans Die Out? Not So Long Ago, Villagers Say - NAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Again I was told that Ebu Gogo ("Ebu" meaning grandparent; "Gogo" has no literal translation, I was told) had indeed lived outside the village, as recently as several hundred years ago.
		So the villagers brought the Ebu Gogo food, with plates and utensils, but the Ebu Gogo threw the plates and utensils in the dirt and gobbled up all of the food.
		The villagers were insulted by this and a fight ensued, which ended in the killing of several Ebu Gogo.
	news.ncmonline.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=92411564f18bf54526cd6d85aae0ab46 (1001 words)

	Indonesian 'Hobbit' Legends May Be Factual - ForumGarden
		Kua and other elders said the creatures, known locally as the "Ebu Gogo" or the "Grandmother who eats everything", were last seen on the central Indonesian island of Flores around 300 years ago.
		Members of the Indonesian-Australian team are standing by their initial findings, which captured the public imagination amid comparisons to the fictional hobbits of JRR Tolkien's stories, including The Lord Of The Rings.
		Using the tale of the "Ebu Gogo" to bolster their case, some team members have speculated that homo florensius may have lived on Flores until much later than 12 000 years ago, possibly as recently as a couple of hundred years ago.
	www.forumgarden.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2231 (954 words)

	Ebu Gogo - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo are somewhat detailed and, like Ireland's leprechauns or Scandinavia's tomtar and Dwarves, may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.
		The discovery in 2003 on Flores of remains of a metre-tall hominid, Homo floresiensis, suggests a more literal interpretation of the Ebu Gogo stories.
		It is questionable whether the folk memory of a people can record any clear or accurate details for a time on the order of 10,000 years, but a folk memory lasting a shorter time is entirely plausible.
	education.music.us /E/Ebu-Gogo.htm (623 words)

	Homo floresiensis and "Ebu Gogo" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Indonesian Ebu Gogo is a mythological small-statured human-like figure:
		The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo are somewhat detailed and, like Ireland's leprechauns or Germany's elves, may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.
		However, a story in the Telegraph suggests Ebu Gogo has survived to recent times.
	www.cabalamat.org /weblog/art_311.html (819 words)

	The Ebu Gogo of Flores Island Legend Page
		The Ebu Gogo are the main characters in a traditional folk story told by the Flores Islanders.
		The Ebu were driven away from human habitation and they forced to seek refuge in the caves at Liang Bua.
		The last of the Ebu were seen on the island at the same time the original Dutch colonists arrived.
	www.floresgirl.com /ebu-gogo-legend.htm (675 words)

	Ebu: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ebu: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Ebu Hanife’nın “İman” Hakkında Görüşleri 29 Nov 2006 1- “İman ikrar ve tasdiktir.”[1] 2- “İman, dil ile ikrar, azalar ile tasdiktir.
		Ebu Hanifenin “Kader’ Hakkındaki Görüşleri 29 Nov 2006 1- Adamın birisi Ebu Hanife’ye gelip onunla kader tartışmaya başladı.
	technorati.com /tag/ebu (310 words)

	ZoomArticles.com - Science \| Human Origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		So the lice must have come from very fresh corpses and it is hard to suppose that they had died peacefully just before the intruders turned up.
		Ebu Gogo seems to have been a descendent of Homo erectus, also known as Java man, who reached the island about 840,000 years ago.
		The Ebu Gogo recorded by the villagers had forgotten what language was for; they used no tools, and ate their food raw.
	www.zoomarticles.com /Science/29078.asp (971 words)

	Laputan Logic - Ebu Gogo
		Nevertheless, folktales are always an interesting subject matter and Richard Roberts, who is one of the co-authors of the paper announcing the discovery of Homo floresiensis, has an interesting one to tell from Flores.
		In the very first article I read on this discovery, I remember noticing that they referred to the skeleton of the 30 year-old woman as "Ebu".
		They are known as the Ebu Gogo, which has been translated as "grandmother who eats anything".
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2004/11/009-0001-6534.html (1304 words)

	[OCFdiscuss] "Hobbit" Remains Found; Still Around?
		Villagers Speak Of Small, Hairy Ebu Gogo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=BCTQ3WQYVHYV1QFIQMFSM5W AVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2004/10/28/whuman228.xmlandsSheet=/news/2004/10/28/ixnewst op.html...called Ebu Gogo - Ebu meaning grandmother and Gogo meaning 'he who eats anything'....most fabulous details...
		...Ebu Gogo ate everything raw, including vegetables, fruits, meat and, if they got the chance, even human meat.
		They [the Ebu Gogo] murmured at each other and could repeat words [spoken by villagers] verbatim.....
	www.lists.opn.org /pipermail/org.opn.lists.ocfdiscuss/20041028/000756.html (365 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: The Riddle of the Hobbit -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For generations, the inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores, located 563 km east of Bali, told stories of a race of little people called the Ebu Gogo: hairy, human-like creatures that hid in the island's limestone caves.
		Like leprechauns, the Ebu Gogo (the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything") were assumed by anthropologists to be mythical.
		That was until a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers excavating a cave on the island uncovered ancient bones that included the 18,000-year-old skeleton of a 1-m-tall female with a brain the size of a grapefruit.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501060904-1399614,00.html (861 words)

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