Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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cal scripts in Java, Sumatra (Batak, fig. 86 b), and thel-hilippines (Tagljanua) gave rise in those islands to what, at anyrate in the first two cases, well deserves the name of literature. Indonesian religion consists in the propitiation of spirits whichfill the air, and are mainlymahjvolcnt, always siekingan()i)portnnityto do harm to men. Thespines, and shamanistic witch-doctors ofeither sex are found.
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Fig. 86a.—Wooden figure of a lioi-nbill used in (•cronionif^. Ihan. Borneo. The Semang api)ear to have no fear of ghosts, but they recognizea thunder-god and several minor deities; the Sakai, on the con-trary, hold beliefs similar to those of the Indonesians. In themore civilized communities other foiins of religion are found ;in Java Buddhism was introduced at a very early date, and themighty ruins of Boro-Budur, similar in style to those of North-West India, prove that it brought Avith it an advanced culture.Later it was replaced 1)y Hinduism, and later still, at the fall ofMajapahit in 1475. Islam became the national religion : a fewHindu families fled to Bali, where the old religion is still found.Islam as a religion seems suited to the Indonesians, particularlythe Malays, who accepted it readily: it reached Acheh in Sumatra INDONESIA 10:^ in 1206, the Malay Peninsula in 127C), became the state religion inBrunei about 1400, and in Java in 1475, and obtained a footing inCelebes

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