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- """Despite the Andamanese being isolated for 60,000 years, they have created almost exactly the same deity as us. According to them, Puluga is invisible,the creator of everything except evil, immortal, all-knowing, eternal and mosts strangely, to punish men for wrong doing, he sent a giant flood to them."""
No source for it and striking bias in reporting facts. Patterns in Comparative Religion By Mircea Eliade contains some info about Puluga. Darked (talk) 00:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Recommend deletion
editTo begin with, "Puluga" is the term in Bea and Bale, but not in the other Great Andamanese languages, where the term is Bilak or Bilikhu.(Portman 1887: 34-35, 1898: 68-69, Yadav 1985: 188, 199, Abbi 2006: 42.) This is the first, and probably the last, time I'll ever find occasion to complain about en.wp's unmistakable South Andamanese bias. It would be very interesting to have an article on this character to whom, it's true, the Great Andamanese attribute their prehistoric deluge; however, this one definitely isn't it. I'm unsure if the scholarly literature as it now stands could support one without the addition of original research, but no scholarly study is going to support the statement, "Despite the Andamanese being isolated for 60,000 years, they have created almost exactly the same deity as us." I have removed that absurd statement, and recommend this article for deletion.24.22.141.252 (talk) 07:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
- I've located several good sources for the Andamanese religion, to which this should probably be redirected once there is an article by that title. In the meantime, I've stubbed it.24.22.141.252 (talk) 03:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)