THE ORIGIN OF PUPPETS

THE ORIGIN OF PUPPETS

Future development of puppet culture is also an interesting language. Starting ancient times when the ancestors of Indonesia still animism and dynamism. In animism and dynamism is believed to be the spirit of a deceased person is still alive, and all the objects that animate and has power. The spirits that can reside in large logs, rocks, rivers, mountains and others. Alloys of animism and dynamism is putting the spirits of ancestors who were once in power, still has power. They continued to be worshiped and asked for help. To worship the spirits of ancestors, in addition to perform certain rituals they happen in the form of drawings and sculptures Spirit revered ancestor is called "hyang" or "dahyang".

People can relate to the hyang is to ask for help and protection, through a medium called 'shaman'. Rituals of ancestor worship, hyang and shaman who is the origin of this puppet show. Hyang be a puppet, ritual belief it becomes way stage and the shaman becomes puppeteer. While the story is an adventure and experience ancestors. The language used is the original Java language, which until now is still used. So, the puppet that comes from the ritual beliefs Indonesian ancestor around the L500 BC

Derived from the time of animism, puppets continue to follow the history of the nation until the entry of Hinduism in Indonesia around the sixth century. Indonesian nation began berseniuhan with high civilization and managed to build up kingdoms as Kutai, Tarumanagara, even the great and glorious Sriwijaya. At that time, the puppet was growing rapidly, got a solid foundation as a high-quality artwork.

Performing ancestral spirits were then developed with the story more weight, Ramayana and Mahabharata. Over the centuries X to XV, puppets developed in the framework of religious rituals and education to the community. At this time he began writing stories about puppets. During Kediri kingdom, Singasari and Majapahit puppet literature reached its peak as recorded in inscriptions in temples, literary works written by Professor Spoon, professor Sedah, Panuluh professor, professor Tantular and others.

In Indonesia, although the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata are both growing in the puppet, but Mahabharata thoroughly worked over by the humanist and poet us. Various play carangan and splinter, mostly taking the Mahabharata as the core of the story.