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Toleransi Agama PALING Tinggi KAUM IBAN - Doa Muslim bergema di rumah panjang Kristian.

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In Jakun’s people in the Kampung Peta there is a kind of insect was much feared 'bisan'. This insect is larger than ‘cicadas’ and cling to the trunks oflarge trees. These bugs will emit a very loud at dusk until the early evening. According to Mr. Aming, this insect can cause human illness if they get angry. If someone is urinating and large, bathroom and make a noise when it reads bisan seem disrespectful animals and this will cause the person to be penalized as bloating and so forth. However, Mak Loh stated that ‘bisan’ good character and is regarded as being in a community Jakun. It will go sailing and traveling up to China and will bring revenue returns to the village in the form of lush vegetation. According Aming, today there are young children are stubborn and no longer according to their ancestral taboos. This can be proved by the events of the Kampung Peta young bald hair, bragging result at dusk when ‘bisan’ sound.

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Negrito people: A mother and her child.

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Salim said many of the Orang Seletar converted to Islam or Christianity and had left behind their old beliefs.

He said, however, there were still some who practised certain customs and old dialects.

“When we go out to sea or enter the mangrove, we still avoid talking in a boastful or rude manner, as a mark of respect to nature,” he said.

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Orang Jakun is having a rituals called Mandi Air Pancur.

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While a dominant part of the Kadazan-Dusun people group have changed over to Catholicism, a critical number of despite everything they stay as animists. Their customary animistic religion is driven by the conviction that spirits led over the planting and collecting of rice, a significant occupation among the Kadazan-Dusun individuals.

In accordance with that, the Kadazan-Dusun individuals observe Pesta Kaamatan, a festival to respect the rice soul and offer thanks for the bounties of the year. The celebration goes on for the entire month of May, finishing with an open occasion on 30 and 31 May every year in Sabah.

Pesta Kaamatan will see various ceremonies and traditions led by bobohizan or bobolian, who are viewed as the esteemed ministers or priestesses of the network. Note that the clerics and priestesses are tended to distinctively in the various locale, for instance, in the Tambunan region, they are known as bobolian, while in Tuaran they are alluded to as tantagas.

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Weather does not only affect practical life in the forest but is also closely connected to Batek religion. The Batek usually mark the beginning and end of the fruit seasons with a Kensing 4 (‘singing, dancing and trancing ceremony’) where they ask and thank the hala’ (‘superhuman beings’) for abundant fruit as well as request help for curing sicknesses. When shamans are present at these ceremonies, they may enter trances and go on ‘soul journeys’ to visit the hala’ [5,12]. Weather is also fundamentally connected to the activities of the terrifying thunder deity, known as Gobar, and the flood-causing dragon known as Dranuk, Nagaor Ya’. These deities unleash their fury whenever human activities transgress the established moral order by breaking taboos. Like many other indigenous groups across the world, Batek social relations and ideas of personhood spread beyond humans, into animals, meteorological phenomena, plants and other-than-human beings [25,26,27]. Thunder storms are a common phenomenon throughout the year in Malaysia and their violence can be extremely frightening. The heavy rain from thunderstorms can quickly lead to flash flooding and landslides, and strong storm winds can reach very high speeds. In a forest environment, storms can soon bring about devastation. The Batek believe severe weather such as thunder storms and flooding are caused by Gobar and Dranuk punishing humans for breaking certain rules that are codified in Batek taboo systems. Access to globalized media means the Batek are now highly aware of extreme weather events across the planet, which they frequently interpret as being caused by humans breaking these same taboos..

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Tropes of Fear: the Impact of Globalization on Batek Religious Landscapes

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The Batek are a forest and forest-fringe dwelling population numbering around 1,500 located in Peninsular Malaysia. Most Batek groups were mobile forest-dwelling foragers and collectors until the recent past. The Batek imbue the forest with religious significance that they inscribe onto the landscape through movement, everyday activities, storytelling, trancing and shamanic journeying.

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The traditional religion of all Philippine Negritos is animism. Today, most of them remain animists, although some of their beliefs have been modified by Roman Catholic Christianity. However, this particular ethnic has grown into a community in Malaysia but practices both Islam and Christian.

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To climb Mount Kinabalu and appreciate its flawless unpolluted air, see the adjustment in the greenery from subtropical to tundra vegetation, to arrange the Panar Laban shake face and track up to sayat-sayat and the top to observe the radiant first light is an encounter incredible.

A devoted climber more often than not builds up a bond among him and the mountain, continually approaching it with deference and respectability and attempts to comprehend the changing states of mind of the mountains without disregarding the unwritten code of ancestral grandiose speech.

Mount Kinabalu isn't only a physical geologic outcrop yet a famous and profound image of the occupants of the Land underneath the Wind.

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Numerous among these local individuals accept that spirits possess each characteristic of physical substances. Mt. Kinabalu (picture, left), for instance, is secured by spirits including the spirits of their progenitors.

This can cause fears among individuals. This situation hinders their regular day to day existence. They can't move openly and do ordinary errands unafraid of responses from "furious spirits."

They have a method for limiting the plausibility of any purported untoward occurrence regularly occurring. They do this by soliciting the assistance from a priestess. Yet, envision the burden on the off chance that they have no priestess around at that specific day. Suppose you need to go to another town to get the administration of a priestess there.

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Kadazan precursors rehearsed a religious conviction that is animistic in nature. They accepted that each article, for example, a tree has a gatekeeper soul. This is as yet drilled by numerous Kadazans (or Dusuns) particularly the individuals who have not changed over to any of the "present-day" religions.

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The Negritos are dull cleaned individuals that are ethnically not quite the same as other individuals in the Philippines that are for the most part Malay in roots. They are accepted to be the first occupants of the Philippines. Their starting points are dark. Some anthologist accepts they are relative of meandering individuals that "shaped an old human scaffold among Africa and Australia.

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Orang Seletar’s Johor was the main Malay state to compose Islam on a bureaucratic premise. The Jabatan Agama Islam Negeri (Johor Islamic Dept) was set up under the state constitution, empowering the administration to have direct authority over religious exercises. An area headed by the Controller and Enlistment center of Religious Schools assumed responsibility for religious training. The Johor Islamic training framework ought to be a model to be copied by different states, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad during his prevalence, with an end goal to find fanatic educating. The menteri besar approached Muslims to review the magnificent day of Islam (NST, 2008/1/11).

In 2004, there were at that point 537 religious schools legitimately controlled and completely subsidized by the state government. The state religious division additionally controls and oversees the staying 23 'private' religious schools (Sekolah Agama Rakyat), helping them with yearly money related awards. For some Johoreans, Islamic training involves course to supplement the national instruction stream.

Muar turned into the origin of Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) in 1951 when the ulamas (Muslim researchers) met to talk about and trade sees on the advancement of religion with a fixation on training.

Despite the fact that connections among the individuals of various religious foundation are all things considered amicable, Islamic cognizance is confirm by incredible interest for religious instruction just as the thorough requirement of religious standards in numerous parts of individuals' lives, including those of different beliefs. For instance, in the state capital, composed assent of Muslim neighbors must be gotten before reestablishment or new canine licenses can be given.

In their push to get control over the freak bunch 'Sky Kingdom' and its instructing, the religious office have been intently observing two towns in Kluang and Mersing. The specialists are additionally watching out for any conceivable Shi'ite action.

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they are viewed as less edified and gifted in "dark enchantment" (the word jakun is derogatory in Malay, suggesting a graceless individual) while on the other they are viewed as verification that the nation has consistently been occupied by individuals of the Malay sort (consequently the more considerate and authority name Orang Asli or "unique individuals"). Jakun settlements can be found in the Malaysian conditions of Johor and Pahang. Before, their settlements stretched out over a lot bigger zone of the southern promontory.

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It creates the impression that one's Chinese granddad was either a centre individual or a charcoal creator.   this movement appeared to generally be an industry of the estuary Chinese.

They were somewhat untouchables on account of their Chinese legacy and this had potentially made it simpler to further change over or embrace Muslim personality. Nonetheless, it is very conceivable that their Chinese granddad had changed over to Islam at a prior point and had presented both Chinese blood and Islam into his 'Seletar' posterity simultaneously. This is illustrative of the recorded smoothness of Malaysian hybridity before the more present-day endeavours to formalize Malaysian ethnicity. Numerous Seletar still practices types of 'animism'. More work should be done to recognize what really establishes neighbourhood rehearses under this heading, as it is probably not going to be a conventional conviction framework in the feeling of a 'cutting edge 'scriptural religion which is here and there fixed in its recorded implications.  , this conviction framework seems, by all accounts, to be associated with wellbeing, affliction and recuperating and it may likewise give some fascinating pieces of information to a portion of the parts of Malay culture (customary practices) which as far as anyone knows pre-dates the appearance of Islam and lives on today in different liminal and fragmentary structures at the limits of 'regular' Islamic practice, for example, the visits to bomohs (Malay professionals of enchantment) (Peletz,1993) in Johor.

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'Over time, non-Muslim "traditional" elements of Malay culture have been marginalised and disavowed, while everyday lifestyles have refocused on Islam. Islam in postcolonial Malaysia has become a potent force, politically imbued with power, that shapes everything "customary" — from rituals, beliefs, prayer times, food and attire, to morality, politics,and economic practices — and legitimises the erasure of certain Malay cultural forms.' (Nah, 2003,522)

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#AWANIXtra : Kenali kaum Orang Asli Jakun

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they are viewed as less humanized and gifted in "dark enchantment" (the word jakun is derogatory in Malay, suggesting an uncouth individual) while on the other they are viewed as confirmation that the nation has consistently been possessed by individuals of the Malay sort (henceforth the more respectful and authority name Orang Asli or "unique individuals"). Jakun settlements can be found in the Malaysian conditions of Johor and Pahang. Before, their settlements stretched out over a lot bigger zone of the southern landmass.

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These are some of the scriptures prayes that has been collected mostly from around the world with different beliefs.

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Many Orang Seletar worship spiritual beings believed to dwell in the coastal areas and in the depths of the sea. In contrast, death and illness are bound to the land. They go ashore to heal the sick or to bury their dead.

While spirits (hantu) roam everywhere - on trees, under water and rocks, in caves, and even in the air - the sole condition of this sea-people is respect. They believe that failure to respect the environment - the abode of the spirits - results in illness, conflict, and death. The only cure lies in exorcism and appeasement of the spirits.

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In “The Form and Function of Tambunan Dusun Riddles”, Williams (1963) noted that Dusun riddling is a necessary section of the shape and functioning of Dusun society. Focusing on the forms and social functions of the sundait, he concluded that riddling behaviour may want to now not be labeled as a enjoyment time sport or activity. Furthermore, Dusuns do no longer view riddles as checks of chance, or luck. From some other perspective, Lokman’s (2004) learn about investigates the performance of Kadazandusun riddles as a special oral skill. Based on the above critiques of the literature, the shut relationship between sundait and the cultural value i.e. riddling for the duration of harvest-time was once no longer the concern of the find out about with the aid of all the previous sundait researchers.

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The Kadazan ancestors had been exposed to the Islamic faith due to the factthe river valleys on the west coast of North Borneo were beneath the manipulate of Brunei's pangirans. Very few of them became Muslims. It was once throughout the duration commencing from the 1960s that many Kadazans embraced Islam as their religion. Many of them had been perchancepressured to convert or grew to become Muslims as a result of marriage to a Muslim man or woman.

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I once witnessed a Christian missionary 'praying over' an Orang Asli man, who was not yet a convert.Nevertheless, he was obviously receptive of the idea of having someone place his hands on his head and invoke the help of some supernatural being.Then it struck me: this is no unusual scene.The Semai man had probably gone through this rite many times before - not with an outsider, but with his own shaman during the traditional healing ceremonies that they have.

Since then, each time I come across someone who regards his religion as being the "true religion", and who treats indigenous religions as being "non-religions" at worst, or "animistic" at best, I am reminded of this scene, and of numerous other instances when it was difficult to tell the difference between the two religions - or at least their practices.

To name some: the sprinkling of holy water, the casting out of demons, the burning of incense, and the singing sessions where people go into a trance and speak in strange languages.No, I am not referring to any particular indigenous religion, though I could very well be.These are, mind you, forms of the practice of the Christian religion.The ancient Aztec civilization in Central Mexico, in fact, had a rite in which consecrated water was used to remove impurity from a newborn baby's heart.Just how different is this from Catholic baptism?

Much of one's existence, as the traditional cultures believe, is dependent on one's relationship with the spirit world.A good harvest is attributed to the work of benevolent spirits.So too is a safe journey or a successful hunt.Everything is in the hands of the Spirit Being ‑ much like how Christians are wont to attribute all to the "power of the Holy Spirit."

Like the latter which has been symbolically identified in the bible variously as a burning bush, a white dove and as tongues of fire, the indigenous cultures also believe that the Spirit Being manifests itself in certain living creatures and inanimate objects.On the surface, therefore, there seems to be no difference between the two views of the "Spirit", yet, it is the indigenous religion which is regarded as "animistic."

Space does not permit a discussion on indigenous religion ‑ which incidentally is more complex and theologically-sound than we are inclined to assume.(See Endicott's Batek Negrito Religion (1979) and Signe Howell's Society and Cosmos on the Chewong (1984) for an idea of two Orang Asli religions.Both are published by Oxford University Press.)

Nevertheless, while religion is generally accepted as a matter of belief, it also involves institutionalized patterns of behaviour - rituals, ceremonies, and the like - that express and reinforce religious beliefs.It is through ritual and ceremony that members of a society are brought into the realm of the sacred, where they are made to feel as if they are part of the supernatural.

Unfortunately, many of us tend to evaluate indigenous religions solely in terms of the rituals and rites which are often projected as primitive and 'unscientific'.Since such judgments can only be made in relation to our own religions, it reveals an element of self-centredness in our perception of the religions of others.

The average Christian, it can be safely claimed, knows very little about indigenous religions.Often, only the visible rites and rituals are noted, and evaluations made based on these.Even so, in assessing rituals, the follower of the Great Religion would tend to apply a different standard of 'scientific-ness' to his own religion.

If we consider the meaning and purpose of rituals - acts which are repeatedly carried out routinely to achieve a state of consciousness where the presence of the supernatural is felt - we will see that there is very little difference in the use of rituals between various religions.There may be variations in a church service or a traditional healing ceremony, for example, but the basic format remains the same from one 'service' to the next.In all religious traditions, also, there have been various means of achieving the desired states of consciousness: fasting, flaggelation, self-torture, sensory deprivation, and ritual dancing and singing.

Rituals being considered as such, it should be now clear that indigenous peoples do not worship inanimate objects.They may accept that the wrath or blessing of the supernatural may be manifested in a flood or a good harvest respectively - as is also the case in the bible stories - but they do not pray to trees or stones or such objects.

The presence of the supernatural, in fact, is very much acknowledged in their daily living.Rules for individual and community behaviour - the basis of the indigenous social order ‑ place much emphasis on realizing the command of the supernatural: maintaining harmony.Harmony between the individual and nature, and harmony between individuals, therefore, is the core value that indigenous peoples subcribe to - and practice.Theologically, this is much like "building the kingdom of god on earth."

Let us not pass hasty judgments, directly or indirectly, on indigenous religions for, after all, it has been said that the existence of gods or the truth of myths cannot be proven or disproven; we can only believe or disbelieve.

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I once witnessed a Christian missionary 'praying over' an Orang Asli man, who was not yet a convert.Nevertheless, he was obviously receptive of the idea of having someone place his hands on his head and invoke the help of some supernatural being.Then it struck me: this is no unusual scene.The Semai man had probably gone through this rite many times before - not with an outsider, but with his own shaman during the traditional healing ceremonies that they have.

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The indigenous minority tribal groups in Brunei are the same as in the neighbouring Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Dusun constitute about 6.3% per cent of the population, and Murut around 6 per cent. Traditionally animistic, though many have converted to Islam and Christianity, they are also traditionally migrating swidden cultivators and collectors of jungle products residing in the forested interior of the country.

The Kedayan are Malay-speaking and Muslim agriculturalists. Despite their language and religious affiliations with the ethnic Malay majority, Kedayan are regarded by Bruneians as closer in status to the animist, interior tribal groups because of a number of similar cultural practices.

Iban, formerly known also as Sea Dayaks, are roughly 4.7 per cent of the population, live mostly along the border with Sarawak (see Malaysia). They are considered to have entered Brunei from Sarawak during the reign of the famous "white Rajahs" of the Brooke family, and it is probably for this reason that they are not considered by Brunei authorities and its Constitution as Bumiputera. Traditionally involved in head-hunting and living in longhouses, they have more recently become labourers and are becoming more urbanised.

The Penan are perhaps less than 300 individuals in Brunei and are forest dwellers who traditionally followed a nomadic way of life. They traditionally harvested and used blowpipes with poison-tipped darts to hunt animals. Most now live in permanent settlements and engage in year-round farming.

Historical context

At its height during the 15th and 17th centuries the Brunei Empire extended to the entire island of Borneo and north into the Philippines. During its decline and the rising influences of European colonial powers in the region, Brunei was to gradually lose most of its territories until by 1888 Brunei was but a shadow of its former self, territorially divided into two slivers of land in the northeast section of the island of Borneo, and became a protectorate of the British Government.

The various indigenous peoples of Brunei thus are indistinguishable from or share close links with other neighbouring indigenous populations of Borneo. As is the case of other countries sharing with it the island - Indonesia and Malaysia - Brunei considers the indigenous populations as Bumiputera, 'Sons of the Soil', except for the Iban and Penan.

While indigenous peoples (except for Iban and Penan) are officially in a privilege position since as Bumiputera they may own land, have access to certain types of employment (including in the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and Brunei Shell Petroleum) and benefit from other types of affirmative action programmes, there is pressure to embrace Islam for those who continue to practice animism or are Christians. In the 1970s, mass conversions to Islam were reported among the indigenous groups, after pressure from the state.

Current issues

The government of Brunei continues to ban many religious activities of non-Muslim groups, including those of indigenous peoples, while at the same time permitting or assisting those of Islamic authorities. The latter for example organise what are known as dakwah or proselytizing activities which include incentives to indigenous peoples in rural areas such as financial aid, new homes, water pumps, etc... There is thus great pressure for indigenous peoples to convert from animism and ancestor worship to Islam, though a smaller proportion continues to convert to Christianity.

Indigenous peoples are additionally encouraged to move away from many aspects of their cultures and languages: while there is no active attempt to suppress the private use of indigenous languages, the Government of Brunei's languages policy and legislation, which provides for the exclusive official use of Malay and in some cases English, all but ensures that the number of speakers of indigenous languages continues to fall. Increasing urbanisation is also seeing traditional economic activities and lifestyles being relegated to the sideways.

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Dusun, Murut, Kedayan, Iban, Tutong, Penan - Minority Rights Group

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The indigenous minority tribal groups in Brunei are the same as in the neighbouring Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. Dusun constitute about 6.3% per cent of the population, and Murut around 6 per cent. Traditionally animistic, though many have converted to Islam and Christianity, they are also traditionally migrating swidden cultivators and collectors of jungle products residing in the forested interior of the country.

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Malaysia is ethnically diverse as a result of the long-established human presence in the region as well as its location as a passage for people moving south from ancient times. Ethnic Malays constitute today just over half of the population. The Chinese constitute the country’s largest minority at approximately 24 per cent. Indigenous people, broadly grouped as Anak Negeri, Orang Ulu and Orang Asli, are thought to collectively comprise approximately 13.9 per cent of the population.

The vast majority of ethnic Malays are Sunni Muslims of the Shafi’i school of thought, while many of the indigenous communities from Sabah and Sarawak are Christians or Muslims. For their part, most though not all Indians are Hindus, while the Chinese are generally Buddhists or Christians.

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A bit of backstory about Negrito people in Malaysia. Specifically Semang tribe.

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Faith and reason are not spheres of influence that overlap, they are completely separate. Faith is defined as knowledge 'verified' by faith. The definition is circular. Faith is belief without reason. Faith is by definition, irrational (knowledge lacking reason). Faith claims knowledge of the unknowable; it is contradictory. The fact that it is irrational does not make it inherently unethical or bad. It is what it is, it is irrational. Faith in god is not a type of knowledge; it is belief without reason. Religious faith is a conventional abstraction.

Faith is different from belief as well. Belief is a statement or idea of pre-knowledge or pre-understanding that can be verified and tested using the scientific method. A belief can be proven true or false. Newton believed gravity existed before he could fully define it or state it into a hypothesis.

Faith is irrational belief. Belief that cannot be tested.

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Faith and reason are not spheres of influence that overlap, they are completely separate. Faith is defined as knowledge 'verified' by faith. The definition is circular. Faith is belief without reason. Faith is by definition, irrational (knowledge lacking reason). Faith claims knowledge of the unknowable; it is contradictory.

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History of Religion - Geography of Faith and War

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Cambridge Dictionary: great trust or confidence in something or someone:

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Today, many of the Iban are Christians, while a growing number are marrying into Malay Muslim families. It is common to see a mixture of traditional Iban and Islamic Iban families living together in a modernized Iban longhouse.

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The Iban religion involves worshiping and honouring at least four categories of beings, i.e. Petara, the supreme god, and his seven deities, the holy spirits of Orang Panggau Libau and Gelong, the ghost spirits (Bunsu Antu) and the souls of dead ancestors.