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Religions of Primitive Peoples

Note 120 — LECTURE III. Primitive Religious Expression: in the Word.

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The pĕtara of the Borneans is at times used as a personal name of the chief divine being, at others in the vague sense of “duty” or “supernatural.” Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak, vol. i., 179. Analogous instances have already been mentioned.

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