Case file · High strangeness
Candidius and the Siraya priestesses
The Dutch pastor Georgius Candidius described in 1628 how the female priests (inib) of Sinkan went into violent trance, foamed and spoke for the gods at public sacrifices.
1628 CE · 23.08, 120.30 · status: account
The account
His account of Siraya religion, with its sacred pots and ancestral spirits, is the earliest ethnography of Taiwan. Pot-worship of the goddess Alizu still continues in Tainan villages.