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Mircea Eliade - Kahuna Sun and Moon
Identifier
003098
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion
In other places, a lunar divinity has been superimposed on the Supreme Being of the sky; such for instance is the case with the natives of the Banks islands and in the New Hebrides................
In Indonesia, Puempalaburu, the sun god of the Toradja, gradually replaces I'lai, the sky god, and carries on his work of creating the universe.... East of Timor, in the Leti, Samata, Baber and Timor Laut archipelagos, the sun is looked upon as the most important divinity and bears the name Upulero, the Lord Sun...