Part 11.1 - The History of Animism in Thailand

[Full title: The history and origins of Animism in Austroasian Countries (1): Thailand]

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Contemporary Thailand, both in urban and rural areas, houses will have built mainly in the corner of the garden, a "House of the Spirit" called "Baan Phra Pume" in Thai.

The sources of animism "Adoration of the Spirit" are born both in the insular world of Indonesia and in the continental territory of Indochina. The tribes who took these lands in the pre-Christian era were mainly animists. They believed that lifeless objects, such as trees, rocks, mountains, and men, had spirits that could affect the health and wealth of those around them and which were then exposed by the devotion of the ancestors and the ancestors. worship of the spirit.

Funeral mounds usually included unique elements to glorify the dead or help them in their next life, such as bracelets and utensils found in the former Ban Chiang site in northeastern Thailand, a site dating back to around 3000 years BC.

Spiritual worship is often linked to ritual songs and dances, special folk drama or masks such as the "shadow game".

This tradition is found mainly in the agricultural and rice-growing communities of Southeast Asia and in villages of rural hill tribes, often lagging behind. These social and religious beliefs stemming from Spiritual Adoration have persisted since ancient times and have become part of the syncretic system of Southeast Asian cultures.

Two thousand years of intrusion on the part of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Catholic and Protestant Christianity have not destroyed the beliefs and practices of the spiritual worship of the everyday world of South East Asians.

The fundamental sources of the Adoration of the Spirit are represented by the excellence of the primitive social structures of the Ark in tribal communities, often lagging behind. It is often associated with the early Bronze Age cultures of the pre-Christian era that had no writing system or written history. Without these written documents, the archeological forms together suggest what societies practicing the animist beliefs could have been.

As on the basis of artefacts found in funeral mounds or excavations and popular rituals and beliefs that have lived to this day.

Ideorams:

There are specialized letters that represent spiritual worship, a common trait that is observed throughout Thailand is the house of the spirit, which is made mainly of teak or concrete, and is made in the shape of the classic Thai house, with high ceiling, windows and a porch around the outside.

Each day, freshly harvested flowers and foods, as well as burning candles and incense sticks, are placed on or near the House of the Spirit to ensure that spirits vibrate with karma and protect the family.

In Thailand, you will also see huge archaic trees in the public neighborhood that are also used for worshiping spirits, they will usually have large color strings around them, and people will bring them "gifts" daily.

Animism “Spirit Worship”

Placement and devotees: The total collection of Adepts of Spiritual Adoration has not been counted, it includes almost all Buddhist, Islamist, Hindu and practicing Christians devotees of present-day Asian societies of the SE. There is no single organization, its geographic offer would include the village and rural communities of some Thai mountain tribes in the mountainous regions of northern Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia with the communities agricultural and rice-growing in the Indonesian island world. The Adoration of the Spirit of today has been imbued with the conventional biblical religions of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.

Australasia is on the waters of Indonesia. In southwestern Indonesia, there is an island called Sulawesi. It is the third largest island in Indonesia. On this island, the inhabitants were called "Bugis" and its history dates back to 2500 BC. Bugis is a xenonimo that represents a superior form of the name (A) Ugi. ~~ which is the main category.

The aforementioned Bugis were diverted from their local animist beliefs and practices towards Islam in the 17th century. We can explain your native form of your belief system as "Spirit worshipers".

What is the worship of the Spirit that you ask? After all, the concept of spirit exists in all religions in only one way.

The cult of spirits is popularly taken as the basis of nature. It is spirituality in its most organic form. Humans at the beginning of humanity, long before the existence of structured religions, have identified forces much more substantial than they. They saw them as gods or spirits, as well as Greek and Roman mythology. They assumed that they could interact with them and tried to win their favor with a variety of rituals. Some homosapiens have been identified as psychics. Some of these rituals include life sacrifices.

The Bugis who were ready to talk about their spiritual worship and professed to be devotees of Islam seemed to be very sympathetic to that. Their cult of mind seems to be very opposed to the Islamic faith, which favors Judaism and rejects spiritual worship.