Interpreting the Sacred: Christian faith and Dayak Uud Danum cultural theology

The focus of this article was to critically analyze the concept of the Divine in the Dayak Uud culture and to compare it with the Divine in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Every culture had religious values that could contribute to theology. In this context, the Uud Danum Dayak tribe had a divine concept called Jahtah Mohotarak. Jahtah Mohotarak was God in the concept of the Uud Danum Dayak people, who gave life and fertility to every creature on earth. This writing methodology was carried out in the form of qualitative research by searching for data through journals, books, and online articles related to the Uud Danum Dayak tribe and the Transcendent Concept in local culture. This data was compared with the teachings of the Catholic Church about the Divine. The results of this study obtained data about how the Uud Danum Dayak community respected God himself in their daily lives by not calling Him carelessly. At the same time, the religious values of the Dayak Uud Danum community regarding the Divine became relevant pastoral tools in the contextualization of theology.