The word Kaamatan is derived from the root word tomot, a Kadazan Dusun term for “harvest”. 
<p>The Kaamatan Festival is an annual event in the cultural life of the indigenous Kadazan Dusuns of Sabah since time immemorial. 
</p><p>In its deepest sense, the Kaamatan Festival manifest the relationships between the Creator deities and their creations. 
</p><p>It embodies the principal acts of invocation of divinities, appeasing, purification and restoration, socio-spiritual reunion, sharing of harvests or blessings and thanksgiving to the Source of All. 
</p><p>It is part of a complex wholesome traditional belief system centred on the paddy rites of passage and the life cycle of Bambarayon – the spirit of paddy.
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Today, the Kaamatan festival has become one of the major national festivals of Malaysia.
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