Dema Deity is a concept introduced by Adolf Ellegard Jensen following his research on religious sacrifice. Jensen was a German ethnologist who furthered the theory of Cultural Morphology founded by Leo Frobenius, ==Definition== The term dema comes from the Marind-anim peoples of south-west Papua and has been used to refer to similar concepts in Me...
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any of several mythical ancestral beings of the Marind-Anim of southern New Guinea, the centre of a body of mythology called the dema deity complex. ... [3 related articles]
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