Batak traditional religion is still practiced today, in a modernised form called Malim. Christian missionaries from Germany and Holland and more recently Indonesian Muslims and the state have marginalised the traditional Batak religion, and even Malim is not recognised by the state. However, many practice Malim, and there are European accounts from the 19th century of what the old religion was like too.

The Batak believed there are three worlds, the middle earth of men, the underworld of ghosts and demons and the heavens ruled by the creator god called Mulajadi Na Bolon. His first creation was Manukmanuk Hulambujati, a magical chicken with an iron-beak who laid 3 eggs from which other gods hatched.

The music in this film is called a gondang and is the traditional and sacred music of the Batak people of Samosir island on lake Toba. This film includes traditional Batak wooden carvings and a dancing funeral puppet.

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