Note 7 — Chapter IV · The Malay Pantheon
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So to this day the Malay magician declares that ’Toh Batara Guru (under any one of the many corruptions which his name now bears7) was “the all-powerful spirit who held the place of Allah before the advent of Muhammadanism, a spirit so powerful that he could restore the dead to life; and to him all prayers were addressed.”