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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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They do acknowledge one to be the Supreme, whom they call Ossa polla maupt Dio, which signifieth the Creator of Heaven and Earth; and it is he also, who still ruleth and governeth the same.

This great Supreme God, they hold, sends forth other Deities to see his Will and Pleasure executed in the World; and these are the petty and inferior gods.

These they say are the Souls of good men, who formerly lived upon the Earth.

There are Devils also, who are the Inflicters of Sickness and Misery upon them.

And these they hold to be the Souls of evil men.
[They worship the God that saves Souls.] There is another great God, whom they call Buddou, unto whom the Salvation of Souls belongs.


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