RELIGION AND COSMOLOGY IN EASTERN INDONESIA

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Map of Indonesia

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Map of Flores Island, Eastern Indonesia

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Map of Ngada Regency

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Map of Sara Sedu Village

 

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sa'o meze: named Great House

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madhu: Buffalo Sacrifice Post

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peo: Buffalo Sacrifice Post

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madhu in relation to bhaga
Miniature Ancestress House

 

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nabe: Flat altar stone in front of the named entry house ladder
ata tangi: paired hebu wood posts on either side of the ladder representing the founding ancestors of the house

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ture: Stone altar complex, sacrifice of a chicken

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ture: Offerings (blood) on the ture

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Offering at the source of the spring and base of a banyan tree

 

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Large stones in the jungle: Home of nitu and resource for ture

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Offering in the forest at the pond of the nitu

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Central part of planting ritual: Offering to the ngebu uma at the uma nitu (center of the garden called the garden of nitu)

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Summary of the process of transformation of the generalized ancestors of the outside into the specific tutelary ancestors of the inside

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