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Batak Toba Datu or Priest Diviner Magic Book "PUSTAHA".
Wood and bark. H : 2.8cm W : 6.5 cm L : 8cm ; across 89 cm ; weight : 0.14lb.
This book preserves the datu priest's knowledge of herbs, medicines, oracle, as well as black and white magic.
Inscribed in ritual language on tree bark with text and drawings, the datu uses pustaha as a reference work or notebook in performing cures and rituals.
The script divided into three categories :
1. the art of preserving life which includes medicine or herbs.
2. the art of destroying life -- black and white magic.
3. the art of fortune-telling, written as oracle to determine auspicious time, 7 days and 7 periods of the day.
Covers are from wood.
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Wood and bark. H : 2.8cm W : 6.5 cm L : 8cm ; across 89 cm ; weight : 0.14lb.
This book preserves the datu priest's knowledge of herbs, medicines, oracle, as well as black and white magic.
Inscribed in ritual language on tree bark with text and drawings, the datu uses pustaha as a reference work or notebook in performing cures and rituals.
The script divided into three categories :
1. the art of preserving life which includes medicine or herbs.
2. the art of destroying life -- black and white magic.
3. the art of fortune-telling, written as oracle to determine auspicious time, 7 days and 7 periods of the day.
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