Bugis indigenous religion

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Bugis indigenous religion is the ancestral spiritual belief system of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, centered on ancestor veneration, sacred cosmology, and ritual practices predating the region’s Islamization.

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Bugis indigenous religion canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian indigenous religion
ancestor veneration tradition
animistic religion
ethnic religion
indigenous religion
polytheistic religion
traditional belief system
coexistsWith South Sulawesi
surface form: Islam in South Sulawesi
coreBelief ancestor veneration
ritual mediation between humans and spirits
sacred cosmology
spirit world
cosmologyIncludes axis linking heavens and earth
middle world
underworld
upper world
follows Bugis cosmology
hasConcept ale kawa
bissu
botting langi
dewata
pangulu
peretiwi
sanro
saukang
siri na pacce
sumange
tondi
hasDeity Dewata Seuwae
hasRitual agricultural fertility ritual
healing ritual
life‑cycle ceremony
sea‑related ritual
spirit possession ceremony
hasRitualObject sacred cloth
sacred kris
sacred regalia
hasRitualSpecialist bissu priest
dukun
sanro healer
hasText La Galigo epic
Lontara manuscripts
historicalPeriod pre‑Islamic South Sulawesi
influenced Bugis
surface form: Bugis customary law

Bugis royal rituals
Bugis social norms
influencedBy Austronesian animism
practicedBy Bugis
surface form: Bugis people
practicedIn Indonesia
South Sulawesi
Celebes
surface form: Sulawesi
recognizedAs local belief (kepercayaan lokal) in Indonesia
status partially syncretized with Islam
practiced by minority of Bugis people today

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Bugis traditionalBelief Bugis indigenous religion