Images of God in Toba Batak storytelling

This paper examines the ways in which God the Creator, the High God, is described in Toba Batak folk-tales. The sources for this investigation are stories recorded in pre-colonial (around 1850), colonial and post-colonial times (up to 2014). In different stories the High God can appear under various...

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Main Author: Johann Angerler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2016-08-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol17/iss2/7