Un « Champion » issu du kraton. L'histoire de Ndara Harimurti

Abstract

3. Gusti Pangeran Haryo, titre nobiliaire. 4. Il s'agit ici d'un coq de combat, figure emblématique du jago, du «champion». 5. Les mardi et vendredi kliwon sont les jours les plus valorisés pour les activités rituelles javanaises visant à établir un contact avec les esprits et les ancêtres, les activités de pèlerinage Archipel 60, Paris, 2000

Night-time in Java. Thoughts on Merapi, Verticality and Paganism

“…In the case of Java, an element of toponymy demonstrates this culturality of the definition of the mountain that goes beyond altitude alone: In the southeast of the Yogyakarta province, a few dozen kilometres from Merapi, the coastal massif of gunung Kidul (the "Southern Mountains") -a massif known for its aridity -rises to a height of about 700 m. It might seem to be the sacredness that makes the mountain or at least contributes to it (Roux 1999, Dardel 2014: Indeed, on the one hand, gunung Kidul is a high place of kejawen and welcomes a number of meditators in search of austerity (Bonneff 1978, Grave 2000 16 ; on the other hand, the verticality and the sacredness are linked, even in the absence of high relief (Berque 2009 on the "movement of cathedrals"). By contrast, Sumatra's western cordillera (which stretches for 1,700 km and has some peaks reaching higher than 3,000 m.) is called Bukit ("hills") Barisan.…”