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RE: This Is How Minahasan Buried The Death
Es un lugar hermoso. Además la información que compartes tiene gran valor histórico, religioso y hasta político, porque dejar las costumbres autóctonas para asumir otras debió haber sido producto de algún tipo de "dominación", ¿o me equivoco?
Honestly I totally agree with you, but I think from the dutch point of view The Minahasan people at the time still don't have religion they still believe in animism/dynamism While their Neighbors Already embarrassing Islam and have protection from Ternate Sultanate.
The same situation occur in Torajan People They embarrassing Christianity but also preserve their own culture, for Minahasan People Embracing Christianity But Abandoned their own century Old Culture To becoming like European..
Do you believe the Europeans didn't have their own religion? If so you are wrong. Also Europeans are not one country but different countries with own cultures and religions.
The Dutch were Germanic peoples with their own gods.
Yes I know before Christianity European have their own religion before the Roman Spread Christianity.
For the Minahasan Their Enemy Actually is another European. Spanish, when Spanish Come to North Sulawesi they already Colonized Filipina, they come to Minahasa land to Conquest, build Catholic Church but failed in Minahasa.
The interesting thing is that many of those who arrived first are rarely mentioned. The Spanish, the French, The English and who knows who more.
Still, I also believe people had free choice. Unlike in Europe people were not burned or put in trials and told they slept with the devil and are witches (men were the first witches by the way).
There are so many religions and if it comes to it it is basically the same ... In a way the Romans understood that as they forced the Jewish religion upon us.
Interesting might be, that if it comes to the Dutch, religion in the Netherlands hardly has a foot at the ground since the 60s.
Most churches are used for musea, shops, exhibitions, changed into appartements etcetera.
The more education, the fewer the need to believe in that one and only God who turns out to save no one and seems to be the god for one country only and approved killing entire nations.
The result? For sure people do believe in something but do so at home, the institution "church" lost its power (manipulation) and finding ones roots are more important.
Without roots, there's no identity.