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Using weaving, the Iban make blankets, bird shirts (baju burong), kain kebat, kain betating and selampai. Weaving is the women's warpath while kayau (headhunting) is the men's warpath. The pua kumbu blanket do have conventional or ritual motives depending on the purpose of the woven item.
The Iban religion involves worshiping and honouring at least four categories of beings, i.e. Bunsu Petara (the supreme god), and his seven deities (the divine people of Tansang Kenyalang), the holy spirits of Orang Panggau Libau and Gelong, the ghost spirits (Bunsu Antu) and the souls of dead ancestors.
5 maj 2023 · The Iban people originally practiced Animism, although today, outside influence has made Christianity and Islam their common religions.
28 gru 2023 · In this paper, we describe one such society, the Iban, whose religious practices are often claimed to not include the worship of ancestors, despite ancestors being central to their religion.
The Iban people adhere to a traditional belief system known as Iban religion, with elements of animism, ancestor worship, and a complex pantheon of gods and spirits. Their cosmology consists of three realms: the Upperworld, the Middleworld, and the Underworld.
There are three kinds of Iban religious practitioners: 1) bards, responsible for reciting myths, histories and genealogies; 2) augurs, who are involved in presiding over rituals involving things like agriculture and traveling; and 3) shaman, who work primarily as healers.
In totemism: Iban. Among the Iban of Sarawak (Malaysia), individual totemism has been the tradition. Particular persons dream of a spirit of an ancestor or a dead relative; this spirit appears in a human form, presents himself as a helper and protector, and names an animal (or…. Read More.
