The Spirit of the Mountain
The Spirit of the Mountain Every great Love stories become a LAGEND, a words to spread the unspoken soul of the lovely spirit of loyal wife who died and the wind sing the rhythm of the mountain... The word Kinabalu is extracted from the short form for the KadazanDusun word Aki Nabalu , meaning the revered place of the dead . The name "Kina balu" actually means "Cina Balu" (which would fully mean "A Chinese Widow"). the pronunciation for the word "cina" (chee-na) was changed to "Kina" (kee-na) as in kadazandusun language. It was told that a Chinese prince, was cast away to Borneo to search for a pearl" bronoe treasure", when his ship sank in the middle of the South China Sea. He was rescued by the natives from a nearby village. As he recovered, he was slowly accepted as one of the people of the village. And he fell in love with a lovely local woman, and married her. Years went by, and he started to miss home