Thursday, August 27, 2009

Nation Gods (Dewa-dewa)

In the Indian version, the Lord told as the embodiment of the god who manifest the nature marcapada to maintain. In accordance with the teachings of his faith who hold Polytheis. When the story was brought to the ground puppets of Java and experience cultural acculturation, in the Hindu kingdoms in Java, especially when the glory of Kediri and Majapahit, the position of the god is not much changed from the version of India.
Puppet, which then was known as one medium of communication and information of a community, the more experience acculturation when then developed the teachings of Islam in Java. Where the process itself is also spreading the culture using puppets as an effort to do da'wah without coercion. From this point, then the position of the god selarah be composed so that the concept of unity in Islam. Hence the piece-piece in the kingdom of Demak, the Wali Songo, until then-piece composed by the writers who made the kingdom of Mataram in both Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
This composition shift the terms of the god, not as a manifestation of god, but no more as one of the beings of the Creator's creation (which one). Where the Gods as a creature of the Creator, created chance have the advantages and privileges compared to other nations, the human race, a giant nation, the apes, the jinn, the nation gandarwa, etc.. Still, the advantages and privileges are still in the framework of the context that this nation as one of the Creator's creatures. This is shown by the creation of puppet plays of Java, which shows the errors, limitations and oversight the Gods. As proof that the rulers of the gods is not true. They 'only' the excess was given the responsibility to protect nature. Keeping the Sun, Wind, Moon, Fire, Soil, Kindness, etc.

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