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The descendants of the first men who sprang from the Tree of Life are the sacred people of the total godhead. They came into existence by its will, and this people is founded according to divine order. We can go a step further and say that the sacred people is the total godhead itself, and shows in its entirety and in its structure the nature and the ambivalence of the godhead. The sacred people is also the cosmos and thus exhibits the dualism of the cosmos. A description of the sacred people will show us this concordance everywhere, and also its roots in the conception of God.
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A survey, with bibliographical references, is to be found in the article by Juynboll in the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië,2nd edition, vol. IV, pp. 285 ff. On tattoo-designs used in Borneo see the excellent account in Nieuwenhuis (1904), vol. I, pp. 450–68. Reference may also be made to Den Hamer (1885).
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Schärer, H. (1963). The Divine Order. In: Ngaju Religion. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9346-7_7
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