Johnnie wrote on Sep 19
th, 2019 at 1:29pm:
The Abbos were totally isolated from the rest of the world and they still managed to believe in spirits and stuff, it seems to be a human condition.
For the last 1000 years though, maybe a tad more possibly.
They have been 'trading' or just 'experiencing' other peoples from other lands. The Moluccans often 'traded' and even 'traded' with Australia on behalf of Chinese and other peoples, of that period. Portuguese visited and even the early Polynesians popped in for a quick Hello (now that they knew this BIG island was already populated) 800 years ago when they left Asia and explored a mostly empty Oceania.
The British were 'Johnny Come Lately's'. Even the French nearly pipped them. Most of this
Sahulian
Region came under the
SPANISH
Claim, in which Portuguese intrusion was tolerated. Australia is still 'legally' claimed by the Spanish. The British claim is default and illegal (like a Criminal).
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Moluccans are the Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands, also called the Moluccas, which have been part of Indonesia since 1950. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for various ethnic and linguistic groups inhabiting the islands.
The original inhabitants of the Maluku Islands were Melanesian, or Papuan, in origin. However, the migration of the Austronesian people changed the situation drastically. Austronesian peoples displaced and partially assimilated the native Melanesian population around 2000 BCE. Melanesian features are strongest in the island of Halmahera and its surrounding islands, where the majority of the population still speaks West Papuan (non-Austronesian) languages of the North Halmahera branch.
Later added to were some Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabian and English genes due to colonization and marriage with foreign traders in the Middle Ages or with European soldiers during World War. Small number of German descendants added to Moluccan population especially in Ambon along with arrival of Protestant Missionaries since 15th century.
A small population of Moluccans (~45000 ) live in the Netherlands. This group mainly consists of the descendants of KNIL soldiers who had originally planned to come the Netherlands only temporarily, but were eventually forced to stay. (See Moluccan diaspora.) The remainder consists of Moluccans serving in the Dutch navy and their descendants, as well as some who came to the Netherlands from western New Guinea after it was handed over to Indonesia. However, the vast majority of Moluccans still live in the Moluccas and the other surrounding region such as Papua, West Timor, North Sulawesi, Bali and Java
Yes but dreamtime goes back 40,000 years plus, and the spirits that go with it.
They probably inherited this condition from deep within Africa.