The Priestesses of the Serpent God

This ebook is considered useful for educational purpose and expresses the basic philosophical concepts of the "panpsichism", typical theory of the Renaissance philosophy. Platonic ideas become the constitutive reason of individual organism and all that exists in the cosmos.

In order to attract the spirits, for thousand of years, the men have deified animals and attributed them divine or supernatural qualities to objects, places or material beings.

This concept, over the centuries, has also spread into the philosophical context, resulting in panpsychism, a term that derives from the Greek, formed from the word "pan", and "psyche", and it means that all beings, living or not, possess psychic abilities.

The pampsichism isn't a real religion, but a denomination attributed to the primitive cults that came, and are still practiced today, from some tribes, populations in Africa, in Latin America, or in islands lost in the Ocean, like Indonesia.

The "Animism" derives from the latin word "anima" (soul), and it is the belief that anything has a spirit, or a soul. So even animals, plants, mountains, rivers, the moon and the stars have a powerful spirits that can do them good, but also evil.

They included panpsychic concepts in their doctrines: Telesio, Plato, Giordano Bruno and Leibnitz, mathematician, philosopher, scientist, logic and theologian. The Greek philosopher Thales said, in this regard, that: "All things are full of gods". An assumption now almost relegated to the world of fables and legends, except where the men still live so near to Nature that they can't ignore the language.

The religious vision of the world and the life, however, has grafted more and less complex beliefs. An union of fusion of irreconcilable ideological elements that have given life to a pantheon of divinities and cults. They have expressed themselves in spiritism magic, divination and astrology, spells, superstitions, amulets and talismans, lucky charms. Anything that could have helped to protect themselves from evil spirits, to appease the good spirits, up to the human sacrifices.

On the background of the Indonesian archipelago, a crossroad of cultures, religions, people and civilations, the book tell real stories of the life and death, tribal rites in practice decades ago, but also survivors where progress and development haven't yet fully arrived. They are events buried by the dust over the years, the result of ancient legacies and ancestral knowledge, when the natural forces escaped to the control of the man and for this it was necessary to ingratiate them. Cults, symbols and myths date back to the most ancient times, to the origins of primordial world and resurface from the distant past of the human race, only apparently appeased.

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