Karo Batak Perminakan

DaveA · 2nd April 2026, 06:16 PM

Sajen,

I’m grateful for your assessment and the book reference.

Also, thank you both for giving me some doubt about whether I had pupak containers in the house. I once had a dealer from Java express concern that I had too many potentially powerful of objects in my house and that could be trouble. Pupak is very troubling.

I am most intrigued by ancestor figures and their role in imbuing power and agency to inanimate objects (e.g., keris, the contents of these jars) as part of the rituals and belief systems held by people in that region of the world.

Dave A

2nd April 2026, 06:16 PM	#6
DaveA Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 453	Sajen, I’m grateful for your assessment and the book reference. Also, thank you both for giving me some doubt about whether I had pupak containers in the house. I once had a dealer from Java express concern that I had too many potentially powerful of objects in my house and that could be trouble. Pupak is very troubling. I am most intrigued by ancestor figures and their role in imbuing power and agency to inanimate objects (e.g., keris, the contents of these jars) as part of the rituals and belief systems held by people in that region of the world. Dave A