Time changes perspective Jaga.
That simple.
The way in which anything has been thought about in the past is only relative to that time.
Islam did not abolish the keris, it just set out to make the belief systems attached to the keris more acceptable to Islam. Same thing happens with many things when a new philosophy begins to take over a society, the changes in the society in turn change the details, but not the roots of the culture.
When we try to understand the keris we need to determine which window in time we will use to provide the perspective that we use for that understanding.
I prefer a slightly older perspective than most people.
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