Wednesday, March 27, 2013

7 Month Traditional

MITONI
 
In Javanese tradition, mitoni is a series of life-cycle ritual is still practiced by most of the Java community. Mitoni word derived from the word 'am' (prefix am showing verb) + '7 '(pitu) which means an activity carried out at the count of seven. Mitoni ceremony is a custom or a ritual performed on the 7th month of pregnancy to the first of a woman in order for the embryo in the womb and the mother always containing salvation.

Ceremonies performed in pregnancy, the spray, put chicken eggs into the fabric of the mother by her husband, change clothes, put a young ivory palm, cut yarn / yarn winding / leaf, breaking crockery and scoop, drink herbal shove, and stealing endhog, essentially transitional ceremony is believed to be a means to eliminate the disaster, a kind of initiation ceremonies shows that it is the appreciation of the elements of the old belief. In addition, there is an aspect of primordial solidarity primarily traditions preserved by hereditary social group. Ignoring customs will result in censure and a bad name in the eyes of the family concerned social groups society.

Mitoni not be held at any time, usually choose a day that is considered good for the ritual mitoni. Good day for mitoni ceremony was on Tuesday (Monday afternoon to night) or Saturday (Friday afternoon to night) and held at the time of the day or evening. As for a place to hold the ceremony usually been in front of a place called the pasren, namely senthong middle. Pasren closely with the farmers as a place to worship Dewi Sri, the goddess of rice. Since most people now do not have senthong, the ceremony is usually held mitoni in the family room or living room which has wide enough to hold the ceremony.

Technically, the conduct of the ceremony was conducted by a shaman or a family member who is considered as the oldest. The presence of shaman is more ceremonial, in the sense of preparing and carrying out ceremonies pregnancy. A series of ceremonies were held ceremonies mitoni are:

1. Spray or bath is a symbol of cleansing ceremony as a sign of self-expression, both physical and mental. Symbolically cleansing aims to liberate mothers from their sins so that one day the mother bear children do not have the moral burden that the process of birth to be smooth. Ceremony performed spray in the bathroom and led by a shaman or a family member who is considered as the oldest.

2. Ceremonies include chicken egg into a cloth (gloves) the mother by her husband through the bowels of the belly, and the egg is released so broken. The ceremony was held in a spray (bathroom) as a symbol of hope for babies born with ease without the gets in the way.

3. Ceremony brojolan or put a pair of young coconut that has been painted ivory Kamajaya and Dewi Ratih or Arjuna and Sembadra into the sheath of the upper abdominal mother down. The symbolic meaning of this ceremony is that one day the baby was born easily without any difficulty.
Brojolan ceremony held in front senthong pasren by the middle or the baby's grandmother (the mother of the mother of the baby) and accepted by the grandmother besan. Both the coconut and then laid down on the bed like a lull baby.
In a symbolic image Kamajaya and Dewi Ratih or Arjuna and Sembadra symbolize when the baby is born will be handsome and have beautiful virtues as an illustrated character. Kamajaya and Dewi Ratih or Arjuna and Sembadra an ideal figure Javanese.

4. Ceremony performed by changing fashion fabric types as 7 (seven) pieces with different motifs. Motif fabric and the selected tank to be used at its best with the hope that someday the baby also has the virtues implicit in the symbol of the fabric.
Motifs are: 1. sidomukti (symbolizing happiness), 2. Sidoluhur (symbolizing glory), 3. truntum (symbolizing the virtues that have always held firm), 4. parangkusuma (symbolizing the struggle to stay alive), 5. cement rama (symbolizing that both parents love the soon to be father-mother remained selma-lamanya/tidak divorced), 6. Udan riris (symbolizing the hope that the presence of children in the community who will be born is always fun), 7. chicken scratch (symbolizing that children born later be self-sufficient life). The last fabric is the fabric of the material tercocok striated lasem patterned with motifs dringin tank. The ceremony was conducted in the middle senthong.

5. Ceremony coil cut leaf / yarn looped around the stomach expectant mothers. Janur / yarn can be substituted with palm leaves or leaf. Windings must be decided by the expectant father with the intention that the birth of baby smooth.

6. Ceremony crack pot and dipper made from coconut shell (siwur). The intention is to give sawab (prayer and praise salvation) so that later when the mother is still pregnant again, his birth also remain easy.

7. Herbal shove ceremony, symbolizing that the children were born like it would be easy driven (were pushed).

8. Endhog nyolong ceremony, symbolizing the birth of a child so quickly and smoothly run as fast as thieves take stolen. The ceremony was conducted by the prospective father to take an egg and bring it ran quickly around the village.

By implementing all of the above ceremony, the ceremony is considered complete mitoni marked with prayers led by a shaman with surround salvation. Salvation or partially offerings brought home by attending or enliven the ceremony

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