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The Ngaju distinguish two supreme deities, which appear separately or as a unitary personality. There is no means of establishing that one deity existed earlier and that the other arrived later, that one is original (so that we have to do with a so-called “primeval monotheism”) while the other came in by foreign influence. The sources tell us that the two supreme deities have existed from the beginning. These two deities are distinct from each other, but each possesses various names. We have not merely to list these names, but also to investigate the problem of why this is the case and what meaning these various names possess.
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Schärer, H. (1963). Names of the Supreme Deities. In: Ngaju Religion. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9346-7_3
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