regarding that priest's staff above (batak/sumatra) where a serpent appears to be moving towards the ancestor, the igorots of northern luzon have the exact same staff by the way.
and this is just one example of the very many similarities among the original designs and motifs and themes in malaysia-indonesia-phils.
and if one casts a wider net so that taiwan and oceania are included (i.e., the austronesian migration), one will discover that aside from genetics and linguistics, the ethnography of austronesian world is very much coherent and consistent.
next up are the icons of the middle earth, the land of the living ...
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