Tara and Nyai Lara Kidul: Images of the Divine Feminine in Java

Jordaan, Roy E.

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“…It is believed that Ratu Kidul, who is named queen of the South Sea and also queen of all the natural souls, good or bad, and protector of the souls of the ancestors, after the performance shares the night with the king. In this way the king is confirmed to and commits himself to being the ruler of all the people, including all the ancestors (Jordaan, 1997). At the beginning of his reign the king should set out on an expedition to capture a sacred flower, the Wijaya Kusuma.…”

Section: Transition Periods and The Souls Of The Dead And Farming Harmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time Order and ‘Speaking Out’: Traditional Farming and Beliefs in Europe and Indonesia and Sky Symmetry Considerations

Hollestelle¹

2016

JAH

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Ordering is indicated by what we perceive of the world, like for instance the behavior of water, as water appears always to flow downwards. Since we do not assume that water will flow otherwise when not perceived by us, ordering is assumed to be real. Time order specifically relates to sky movements. Sky movements are widely used to order human practices for farming and religious beliefs. This is usually understood to be caused by a person's one way voluntary practical choice for a stellar guide. However human beliefs and the human body and its possibilities and restrictions do lead to both voluntary and involuntary aspects. I propose a two way correlation by introducing spiritual properties for persons and objects. Spiritual properties 'speak out' of integral life and longing. For persons this is a more obvious concept. Art objects, like artistic drawings, make this conceivable for objects too. It is like crying: , as a reaction to pain: quite involuntary and inevitable. Personal is the choice, or maybe one might say: the education, of the expression . Correlation between sky movements and traditional practices for farming and religious beliefs from Indonesia and Neolithic northwestern Europe will be discussed and compared. Entanglement of subsistence practices and sky symmetries forms patterns of mutual influence and determination similar to those in physics. Translational and rotational symmetries of the sky universe turn out to be interwoven with respectively hunter-gatherer practices and farmer practices and their private ornaments worn on their body. The author would like to thank Gustaff Iskandar, Commonroom, Bandung, Indonesia, for creating the title's part Time Order for the relation between traditional rice farming and sky calendars and for valuable information and suggestions. Gustaff Iskandar confirmed her own interest in both traditional farming and in physics and astronomy.

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Section: Transition Periods and The Souls Of The Dead And Farming Harmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time Order and ‘Speaking Out’: Traditional Farming and Beliefs in Europe and Indonesia and Sky Symmetry Considerations

Hollestelle¹

2016

JAH

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“…There is considerable debate about the origin and development of the worship of Tara (Shastri 1925, Regmi 1987, Jordaan 1997. However it seems that the tantalising connection of the Celtic Tara and the South Asian Tara (Chaplin 1935) is a fairly late one that is based upon a false cognate (Lévi-Strauss 1963: 208).…”

Section: Aspects Of Tara Devimentioning

confidence: 99%

Teachings of Tara

Miles-Watson¹

2016

Anthropology in Action

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“…The sick princess, who either suffers from a skin disease or has a flaming womb, returns me to my early research on Nyai Lara Kidul alias Ratu Kidul (Jordaan 1984(Jordaan , 1987(Jordaan , 1997, to whom -to paraphrase my late friend Han Resink -I have remained deeply attached. The sick princess, in my opinion, represents none other than the primeval fertility goddess of the Javanese, who, being a vacillating goddess, under Hindu influences came to be identified both with the awesome goddesses like Durga -and Ka -lı -(her demonic or malevolent face) and S´rı -Devı -or similar benevolent goddesses like Uma -, Pa -rvatı -, and Laks .…”

Section: W H Y T H E ś a I L E N D R A S W E R E N O T A J A V A N E mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…19 The better-known examples are Ken Angrok, Raden Susuruh, and Senapati. For more particulars, see Pigeaud (1927), Berg (1938), Jordaan (1984Jordaan ( , 1987Jordaan ( , 1997, and Wessing (1977aWessing ( , 1977b, among others. garb with a Javanese royal princess.…”

Section: W H Y T H E ś a I L E N D R A S W E R E N O T A J A V A N E mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…20 Mindful of the importance of the dictum cherchez la femme, I have often looked for evidence of a politico-religious association between the historical Ta -ra -of the Na -landa -inscription, the Buddhist goddess Ta -ra -, to whom, it may be recalled, the S´ailendra temple at Kalasan was dedicated, and Nyai Lara Kidul. 21 As was to be expected given the scarcity of historical information, my efforts met with little success, although enough art historical data came to light to identify Vyas´a-Ta -ra -as the presiding goddess of the Kalasan temple (Jordaan 1997).…”

Section: W H Y T H E ś a I L E N D R A S W E R E N O T A J A V A N E mentioning

confidence: 99%

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