Carnival Heritage Keraton Surakarta Sultanate

Carnival Heritage

 

Various procedures known custom among the Surakarta Sultanate Heritage Parade, among others. Carnival Heritage is customary procedures performed every night before 1 suro date (Javanese New Year). This carnival usually starts between midnight and 4 am. Treasures Carnival parades this form some heirloom Keraton Surakarta Sultanate has magical powers, believed by the Solo and the surrounding communities. Heirlooms are historical objects from the ancestral Majapahit era and earlier age, which have historical value.

 

Why is it called the Heritage Parade ceremonies?

Carnival Heritage called ceremonies / customs procedures, as done in fixed and hereditary at a specific time or also called tradition.
Not just anyone should hold Heritage palace, certain people who get command to eject and reload Treasure heritage palace was once paraded around certain areas in the city of Solo.

Meaning Carnival Heritage

Carnival Heritage is the gist is the dissemination of magical power possessed Treasure heritage for the safety and welfare of Keraton Surakarta Sultanate and the Republic of Indonesia.
At this time in Carnival Heritage, Heritage they carrying objects is not allowed to talk or joking, because the core of this carnival is ask God for safety throughout the country.

Caucasians Buffalo (Kyai Slamet)

Kyai Slamet is the name of buffalo (Kebo) whose color is white, Buffalo is a pet palace kept since ancient times. Buffaloes have inherit until now in white, and is considered sacred.
At Heritage Carnival, Kyai Slamet (kebo bule) are located in the first (cucuk lampah) in the Java language. In the Java community, buffalo animal is considered animal that brings prosperity, especially buffalo horn believed to resist disasters (tolak bala)

Javanese belief about Carnival Heritage

For the Javanese, Heritage Parade is a series of habits / procedures related to trust (Javanism) that it contains four elements.

1. To honor the ancestors
2. Pepundhen, meaning something that is held in high esteem because they have magical or sacred power.
3. Heirlooms palace, is the ancestral heritage that must remain stable.
4. Believing in the existence of spirits guarding the Surakarta area in the 4 corners (keblat horde). All four elements above an inseparable unity, so that culture is religion Keraton Surakarta-magical.

 

Surakarta society believe about ghosts that keep Surakarta in the 4 corners area, such as: In the north there is a known haunted forest with all the spirits who control the area, led by the Queen Kalayuwati Kanjeng Krendawahana forest. In the east of the city of Solo, there is a mountain in Sunan Kanjeng Lawu live by, which keeps from the east. In the south there is the sea / Indian Ocean to its residents Kanjeng Queen Kencanasari (Kanjeng Queen of South). Meanwhile, in the west of the city of Solo a volcano, Mount Merapi-Merbabu inhabited by Queen Kanjeng Kedhaton. That delicate creature believed to preserve and protect the Kraton Surakarta and the magical surroundings.
Confidence in the things that are unseen above, is said to be the Keraton Surakarta religious-magical, that believe in the things that can not be accepted by common sense. It is one of the Society Surakarta culture.

Offerings

Offerings or Wilujengan, this is a culture and tradition including Surakarta to do with confidence. The offerings or can Wilujengan also called the Offertory. These offerings, fueled the confidence to give protection to the supernatural with the ancestors. The offerings are usually held regularly, in specific places, at specific times set while reading prayers.
Its core offerings are begging welfare and blessings in life, by providing compensation in any form that may be in want of their ancestors in the form of food. Usually by holding "Tumpeng", complete with vegetable rice, eggs and chicken meat, flowers are considered favorite ancestors.

Belief in God Almighty

KeratonSurakarta did not leave any confidence. Society also believes that this life was created, the Almighty God, which man-given tools such fittings piker, reasoning, creativity, taste, and inner intention. Were then given the completeness of the human being as a creature creations to make contact or relationship with the Creator or Gusti (in Javanese), therefore the Surakarta called " Manunggaling Kawula Gusti " (union with creation that creates).
 

Basically every human being needs the safety and well-being in life. And to achieve this purpose there are several ways and means are different from one another, and the means are not the same terms, even though the goal may be the same.
 

In Surakarta society, generally when got accident, distress or hardship of their lives to come to places believed to be the place of his ancestors, to ask for help to the Almighty. Approach yourself to the Almighty is done with a variety of "mental behavior" (how to approach).

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