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Numerous local people and certain missionaries have sought to document and preserve traditional Dayak religious practices. For example, Reverend William Howell contributed numerous articles on the Iban language, lore, and culture between 1909 and 1910 to the Sarawak Gazette.
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.
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.
5 maj 2023 · Many contemporary Iban people are Christian or Muslim, but the traditional religion of the tribe was animism. Animists believe that people are not the only sentient beings, and animation is...
We demonstrate that many of the gods and spirits of the Iban supernatural pantheon are most clearly understood as ancestors. Furthermore, we argue that the Iban example may not be an outlier, and that ancestor worship may be prevalent in many more societies than previously claimed.
Generally, Iban ancestors appear to influence their descendants’ behavior, especially in a ritualistic sense, even if there is little current evidence supporting their influence on cooperation outside of rituals.
Ibans (Bornean people) This is an ethnographic account of '…Iban behavior, the religious beliefs which are the basis for their way of life, the framework within which these exist, and the ends to which they are directed' (p. 5).
