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Mircea Eliade - I-Lai and Yelafaz in Indonesia
Identifier
004381
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion
In the Yap islands of the Western Carolines there is a quite clearly defined belief in Yelafaz – a supreme Being, creator, good and so on...... The natives of the Wetter Islands in Indonesia... still believe in a supreme Being, 'the Old One'.... I-Lai of the Celebes has been assimilated into a sun god whom, however, the natives see as continuing the work of creation begun by I-Lai; it is the same on Timor and innumerable other islands