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Sedikit Informasi Mengenai Perbedaan Windows7 x64 (64bit) dengan Windows7 x86 (32bit) yang Mungkin Belum Banyak yang Mengetahui:

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• Windows 7 x64 (64 bit) akan memberikan performa yang lebih baik dan maksimal dibandingkan windows 7 x86(32 bit). windows 7 x64 (64 bit) mendukung upgrade memory sampai 193 GB, sedangkan windows 7 32-bit hanya sampai 3GB. 
• Kelebihan windows 7 x64 dibandingkan dengan x86 , windows 7 x64 bisa dipasang aplikasi atau software dengan System type untuk x86.

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R.A. Kartini

Raden Ayu Kartini, (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), or sometimes known as Raden Ajeng Kartini, was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini was a pioneer in the area of women's rights for Indonesians.

Biography

Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family when Java was part of the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies. Kartini's father, Sosroningrat, became Regency Chief of Jepara. Kartini's father, was originally the district chief of Mayong. Her mother, Ngasirah was the daughter of Madirono and a teacher of religion in Teluwakur. She was his first wife but not the most important one. At this time, polygamy was a common practice among the nobility. She also wrote the Letters of a Javanese Princess. Colonial regulations required a Regency Chief to marry a member of the nobility. Since Ngasirah was not of sufficiently high nobility, her father married a second time to Woerjan (Moerjam), a direct descendant of the Raja of Madura. After this second marriage, Kartini's father was elevated to Regency Chief of Jepara, replacing his second wife's own father, Tjitrowikromo.

Kartini was the fifth child and second eldest daughter in a family of eleven, including half siblings. She was born into a family with a strong intellectual tradition. Her grandfather, Pangeran Ario Tjondronegoro IV, became a Regency Chief at the age of 25 while Kartini's older brother Sosrokartono was an accomplished linguist. Kartini's family allowed her to attend school until she was 12 years old. Here, among other subjects, she learnt to speak Dutch, an unusual accomplishment for Javanese women at the time. After she turned 12 she was 'secluded' at home, a common practice among Javanese nobility, to prepare young girls for their marriage. During seclusion girls were not allowed to leave their parents' house until they were married, at which point authority over them was transferred to their husbands. Kartini's father was more lenient than some during his daughter's seclusion, giving her such privileges as embroidery lessons and occasional appearances in public for special events.

During her seclusion, Kartini continued to educate herself on her own. Because she could speak Dutch, she acquired several Dutch pen friends. One of them, a girl by the name of Rosa Abendanon, became a close friend. Books, newspapers and European magazines fed Kartini's interest in European feminist thinking, and fostered the desire to improve the conditions of indigenous Indonesian women, who at that time had a very low social status.

Kartini's reading included the Semarang newspaper De Locomotief, edited by Pieter Brooshooft, as well as leestrommel, a set of magazines circulated by bookshops to subscribers. She also read cultural and scientific magazines as well as the Dutch women's magazine De Hollandsche Lelie, to which she began to send contributions which were published. Before she was 20 she hard read Max Havelaar and Love Letters by Multatuli. She also read De Stille Kracht (The Hidden Force) by Louis Couperus, the works of Frederik van Eeden, Augusta de Witt, the Romantic-Feminist author Goekoop de-Jong Van Eek and an anti-war novel by Berta von Suttner, Die Waffen Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!). All were in Dutch.

Kartini's concerns were not only in the area of the emancipation of women, but also other problems of her society. Kartini saw that the struggle for women to obtain their freedom, autonomy and legal equality was just part of a wider movement.
Kartini's parents arranged her marriage to Joyodiningrat, the Regency Chief of Rembang, who already had three wives. She was married on the 12 November 1903. This was against Kartini's wishes, but she acquiesced to appease her ailing father. Her husband understood Kartini's aims and allowed her to establish a school for women in the east porch of the Rembang Regency Office complex. Kartini's only son was born on 13 September 1904. A few days later on 17 September 1904, Kartini died at the age of 25. She was buried in Bulu Village, Rembang.

Inspired by R.A. Kartini's example, the Van Deventer family established the R.A. Kartini Foundation which built schools for women, 'Kartini's Schools' in Semarang in 1912, followed by other women's schools in Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Malang, Madiun, Cirebon and other areas.
In 1964, President Sukarno declared R.A. Kartini's birth date, 21 April, as 'Kartini Day' - an Indonesian national holiday. This decision has been criticised. It has been proposed that Kartini's Day should be celebrated in conjunction with Indonesian Mothers Day, on 22 December so that the choice of R.A. Kartini as a national heroine would not overshadow other women who, unlike R.A. Kartini, took up arms to oppose the colonisers.

In contrast, those who recognise the significance of R.A. Kartini argue that not only was she a feminist who elevated the status of women in Indonesia, she was also a nationalist figure, with new ideas who struggled on behalf of her people, including her in the national struggle for independence.

Letters

After Raden Adjeng Kartini died, Mr J. H. Abendanon, the Minister for Culture, Religion and Industry in the East Indies, collected and published the letters that Kartini had sent to her friends in Europe. The book was titled Door Duisternis tot Licht (Out of Dark Comes Light) and was published in 1911. It went through five editions, with some additional letters included in the final edition, and was translated into English by Agnes L. Symmers and published under the title Letters of a Javanese Princess.

The publication of R.A. Kartini's letters, written by a native Javanese woman, attracted great interest in the Netherlands and Kartini's ideas began to change the way the Dutch viewed native women in Java. Her ideas also provided inspiration for prominent figures in the fight for Independence.

There are some grounds for doubting the veracity of R.A. Kartini's letters. There are allegations that Abendanon made up R.A. Kartini's letters. These suspicions arose because R.A. Kartini's book was published at a time when the Dutch Colonial Government were implementing 'Ethical Policies' in the Dutch East Indies, and Abendanon was one of the most prominent supporters of this policy. The current whereabouts of the vast majority of R.A. Kartini's letters is unknown. According to the late Sulastin Sutrisno, the Dutch Government has been unable to track down J. H. Abendanon's descendants.

Ideas

Religion

Raden Adjeng Kartini also expressed criticisms about religion[citation needed]. She questioned why the Quran must be memorised and recited without an obligation to actually understand it[citation needed]. She also expressed the view that the world would be more peaceful if there was no religion to provide reasons for disagreements, discord and offence[citation needed]. She wrote "Religion must guard us against committing sins, but more often, sins are committed in the name of religion"[citation needed]

Kartini also raised questions with the way in which religion provided a justification for men to pursue polygamy[citation needed]. For Kartini, the suffering of Javanese women reached a pinnacle when the world was reduced to the walls of their houses and they were prepared for a polygamous marriage.

Vegetarian lifestyle

It is known from her letters dated October 1902 to Abendanon and her husband that at the age of 23, Raden Adjeng Kartini had a mind to live a vegetarian life. "It has been for sometime that we are thinking to do it (to be a vegetarian), I have even eaten only vegetables for years now, but I still don't have enough moral courage to carry on. I am still too young." R.A. Kartini once wrote.

She also emphasized the relationship between this kind of lifestyle with religious thoughts. She also quoted, "Living a life as vegetarian is a wordless prayer to the Almighty.
Further studies and teaching
Raden Adjeng Kartini loved her father deeply although it is clear that her deep affection for him became yet another obstacle to the realisation of her ambitions. He was sufficiently progressive to allow his daughters schooling until the age of 12 but at that point the door to further schooling was firmly closed. In his letters, her father also expressed his affection for R.A. Kartini. Eventually, he gave permission for R.A. Kartini to study to become a teacher in Batavia (now Jakarta), although previously he had prevented her from continuing her studies in the Netherlands or entering medical school in Batavia.

R.A. Kartini's desire to continue her studies in Europe was also expressed in her letters. Several of her pen friends worked on her behalf to support Kartini in this endeavour. And when finally Kartini's ambition was thwarted, many of her friends expressed their disappointment. In the end her plans to study in the Netherlands were transmuted into plans to journey to Batavia on the advice of Mrs. Abendanon that this would be best for R.A. Kartini and her younger sister, R.Ayu Rukmini.

Nevertheless, in 1903 at the age of 24, her plans to study to become a teacher in Batavia came to nothing. In a letter to Mrs. Abendanon, R.A. Kartini wrote that the plan had been abandoned because she was going to be married... "In short, I no longer desire to take advantage of this opportunity, because I am to be married..". This was despite the fact that for its part, the Dutch Education Department had finally given permission for R.A. Kartini and R.Ay. Rukmini to study in Batavia.

As the wedding approached, R.A. Kartini's attitude towards Javanese traditional customs began to change. She became more tolerant. She began to feel that her marriage would bring good fortune for her ambition to develop a school for native women. In her letters, R.A. Kartini mentioned that not only did her esteemed husband support her desire to develop the woodcarving industry in Jepara and the school for native women, but she also mentioned that she was going to write a book. Sadly, this ambition was unrealised as a result of her premature death in 1904 at the age of 25.

Kartini Day

Sukarno's Old Order state declared 21 April as Kartini Day to remind women that they should participate in "the hegemonic state discourse of perkembangan (development)". After 1965, however, Suharto's New Order state reconfigured the image of Kartini from that of radical women's emancipator to one that portrayed her as dutiful wife and obedient daughter, "as only a woman dressed in a kebaya who can cook."On that occasion, popularly known as Hari Ibu (Mother) Kartini or Mother Kartini Day, "young girls were to wear tight, fitter jackets, batik shirts, elaborate hairstyles, and ornate jewelry to school, supposedly replicating Kartini's attire but in reality wearing an invented and more constricting ensemble than she ever did.

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10 Fenomena Aneh Yang Terjadi Dalam Pikiran Manusia

1.Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia adalah fenomena di mana seseorang tidak mampu mengenali wajah-wajah orang atau obyek yang seharusnya sudah dikenal. Orang-orang yang mengalami kekacauan ini biasanya mampu menggunakan perasaan lainnya untuk mengenali orang-orang, seperti bau parfum seseorang, bentuk atau gaya rambut, suara, atau bahkan gaya berjalan mereka. Suatu kasus yang klasik dari kekacauan ini dimuat dalam sebuah buku yang terbit tahun 1998 dan pernah ditampilkan dalam bentuk opera Michael Nyman berjudul “The man who mistook his wife for a hat atau orang yang keliru akan istrinya karena topinya.”

Kita mempunyai beberapa pengalaman akan perasaan, yang datang kepada kita beberapa saat, dari apa yang kita katakan, dilakukan setelah dikatakan atau dilakukan sebelumnya, di suatu waktu yang lampau – dari hal-hal di sekeliling kita, berupa masa lalu, dengan wajah-wajah sama, benda-benda, dan keadaan – dari pengetahuan kita yang sempurna akan apa yang akan dikatakan nanti, seolah-olah kita tiba-tiba mengingatnya! – Charles Dickens

2. Fregoli Delusion

Fregoli Delusion adalah fenomena otak yang jarang terjadi, di mana seseorang mempercayai bahwa orang-orang yang berbeda, sesungguhnya adalah orang yang sama yang sedang menyamar. Hal itu sering dihubungkan dengan paranoid dan kepercayaan bahwa orang yang menyamar itu sedang berusaha untuk menganiaya dirinya. Kondisi itu diberi nama seperti aktor Italia, Leopoldo Fregoli yang terkenal dengan kemampuannya untuk merubah diri secara cepat selama penampilannya aktingnya.


Laporan pertama di 1927 dalam sebuah studi kasus pada seorang wanita berusia 27 tahun yang percaya dia sedang dianiaya oleh dua yang aktor yang sering dilihatnya di sebuah teater. Dia percaya kalau orang-orang ini “mengejarnya terus-menerus dengan berubah wujud seperti orang-orang yang dikenalnya

3. Capgras Delusion

Capgras delusion adalah fenomena di mana seseorang percaya bahwa sahabat karib atau keluarganya sudah berganti identitas seperti seorang penipu. Hal ini berhubungan dengan kepercayaan kuno bahwa bayi-bayi telah dicuri dan digantikan oleh peri penculik anak dalam dongeng-dongeng di abad pertengahan, seperti juga khayalan modern mengenai makhluk asing atau alien yang mengambil alih tubuh dari orang-orang di bumi untuk dijadikan sekutu mereka.

Khayalan ini ditemukan paling umum pada pasien berpenyakit jiwa, tetapi tidak menutup kemungkinan itu juga sudah mengacaukan pikiran anda.

4. L esprit de l Escalier

L’esprit de l’escalier adalah rasa untuk berpikir suatu komentar balasan yang cerdas ketika hal itu sudah terlambat untuk disampaikan. Ungkapan itu dapat digunakan untuk menguraikan tentang komentar balasan yang cepat terhadap penghinaan, atau setiap komentar pintar dan jenaka, walaupun kedatangannya sudah terlambat dan tidak berguna lagi.

Sebuah kata dari bahasa Jerman treppenwitz digunakan untuk maksud yang sama. Ungkapan yang terdekat di dalam bahasa Inggris untuk menguraikan situasi ini adalah “being wise after the event atau menjadi bijaksana setelah kejadian.

Peristiwa itu biasanya disertai oleh perasaan penyesalan karena tidak terpikirkan sebelumnya untuk memberikan komentar balasan yang cepat di saat diperlukan. Tapi mungkin lebih bijaksana kalau kita berpikir bahwa balasan itu mungkin bisa merunyamkan hubungan. Tuhan menyintai orang yang sabar dan menahan diri.

5. Presque Vu

Presque vu sering diungkapkan dengan kata-kata, “serasa sudah di ujung lidah” – merupakan perasaan yang kuat bahwa anda akan mendapatkan petunjuk atau ilham akan apa yang terlupa, tapi tidak pernah datang. Istilah “presque vu” artinya “hampir melihat”. Sensasi presque vu dapat sangat mengacaukan perasaan dan pikiran, dan seringkali orang susah tidur dibuatnya.

6. Jamais Vu

Jamais vu (tidak pernah melihat) digambarkan sebagai sebuah situasi sudah pernah dikenal tapi tidak bisa mengenali. Hal itu sering dianggap sebagai kebalikan dari deja vu dan menimbulkan perasaan ngeri dan takut. Anda tidak mengenali sebuah situasi meskipun anda mengetahui secara rasional bahwa anda telah berada di dalam situasi itu sebelumnya. Secara umum dapat dijelaskan ketika seseorang beberapa saat tidak mengenali seseorang, kata, atau tempat yang sebetulnya sudah diketahuinya. Ini menjadikan orang percaya bahwa jamais vu merupakan sejenis gejala dari kelelahan otak.

7. Deja Senti

Déjà Senti adalah fenomena “pernah merasakan” sesuatu. Kejadiannya contohnya seperti ini : “Kamu merasa pernah mengatakan sesuatu, dipikiran kamu mengatakan, “Oh iya aku ngerti!” atau “Oh iya aku ingat!” tapi 1 atau 2 menit kemudian kamu akan sadar kalau kamu sebenarnya tidak pernah mengatakan apa-apa”.

8. Deja Visite

Deja Visite adalah pengalaman yang hanya sedikit orang mengalaminya di mana melibatkan suatu pengetahuan gaib akan suatu tempat yang baru. Sebagai contoh, anda mungkin pernah mengetahui jalur jalan di suatu kota yang baru anda datangi atau pemandangannya meskipun tidak pernah ke sana sebelumnya, dan anda yakin mustahil mempunyai pengetahuan tentang itu.

Kalau Deja Visite tentang hubungan-hubungan geografis dan ruang, selagi Deja Vecu adalah tentang kejadian-kejadian sementara waktu. Nathaniel Hawthorne menulis tentang sebuah pengalaman seperti ini di dalam bukunya “Our Old Home” di mana dia mengunjungi sebuah benteng yang sudah hancur dan mempunyai pengetahuan lengkap mengenai denah tata letaknya. Ia kemudiannya mampu melacak pengalaman itu dalam sebuah puisi karangan Alexander Pope yang dibacanya beberapa tahun kemudian. Puisi itu menggambarkan keadaan benteng itu dengan akurat persis seperti yang diketahuinya.

9. Deja Vecu

Deja vecu (Dibaca deya vay-koo) adalah apa yang dialami banyak orang ketika mereka berpikir sedang mengalami deja vu. Deja vu adalah perasaan telah melihat sesuatu sebelumnya, sedangkan deja vecu adalah pengalaman setelah melihat suatu peristiwa sebelumnya, tapi hanya di dalam detil yang besar – seperti mengenali bau-bauan dan bunyi-bunyian.

Hal ini juga biasanya disertai oleh suatu perasaan yang sangat kuat akan pengetahuan sesuatu yang akan datang kemudian. Pengalaman yang pernah terjadi – tidak hanya mengenal apa yang akan datang berikutnya – tetapi juga mampu mengatakan kepada orang di sekitar apa yang akan datang itu, dan biasanya itu adalah benar. Ini sangat aneh dan sensasi yang tidak bisa dijelaskan.

10. Deja vu

Deja vu adalah pengalaman tertentu akan sesuatu yang sedang berlangsung di mana anda sudah mengalaminya atau melihat situasi baru itu sebelumnya – anda merasa seolah-olah peristiwa telah terjadi atau sedang mengulanginya.

Pengalaman itu biasanya disertai oleh perasaan yang kuat seperti sudah mengenal dan suatu perasaan berupa kengerian, asing, atau aneh. Pengalaman “yang sebelumnya” ini biasanya berhubungan dengan mimpi, tetapi kadangkadang ada suatu perasaan pasti bahwa itu sudah terjadi di masa lalu.





source: rupadunia.com

Nyai Roro Kidul

Nyai Loro Kidul (also spelled Nyi Roro Kidul) is a legendary Indonesian female spirit or deity, known as the Queen of the Southern Sea of Java (Indian Ocean or Samudra Kidul south of Java island) in Javanese and Sundanese mythology.

According to Javanese beliefs, she is also the mythical spiritual consort of the Sultans of Mataram and Yogyakarta, beginning with Senopati and continuing to the present day.

Names

Nyai Roro Kidul spirit has many different names, which reflect the diverse stories of her origin in a lot of sagas, legends, myths and traditional folklore. Other names include Ratu Laut Selatan ("Queen of the South Sea," meaning the Indian Ocean) and Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Kidul. The royal house of Keraton Surakarta revered her as Kanjeng Ratu Ayu Kencono Sari. Many Javanese believe it is important to use various honorifics when referring to her, such as Nyai, Kanjeng, and Gusti. People who invoke her also call her Eyang (grandmother). In mermaid form she is referred to as Nyai Blorong.

The Javanese word loro literally means two - 2 and merged into the name of the myth about the Spirit-Queen born as a beautiful girl or maiden, in Old Javanese rara, written as rårå, (also used as roro). Old-Javanese rara evolved into the New Javanese lara, written as lårå, (means ill, also grief like heartache, heart-break).

Dutch orthography changed lara into loro (used here in Nyai Loro Kidul) so the word play moved from beautiful girl to a sick one - Old Javanese Nyi Rara and the New Javanese Nyai Lara.

Description

Nyai Loro Kidul is often illustrated as a mermaid with a tail as well the lower part of the body of a snake or a fish. The mythical creature is claimed to take the soul of any who she wished for. According to local popular beliefs around coastal villages on Southern Java, the Queen often claim lives of fishermen or visitors that bathe on the beach, and she usually prefers handsome young men.

Sometimes Nyai Loro Kidul can be spoken of as a "naga", or mythical snake. This idea may have derived from some myths concerning a princess of Pajajaran who suffered from leprosy. The skin disease mentioned in most of the myths about Nyai Loro Kidul might possibly refer to the shedding of a snake's skin.

The role of Nyai Loro Kidul as a Javanese Spirit-Queen became a popular motif in traditional Javanese folklore and palace mythologies, as well as being tied in with the beauty of Sundanese and Javanese princesses. Another aspect of her mythology was her ability to change shape several times a day. Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX of Yogyakarta described his experience on spiritual encounters with the spirit Queen in his memoire; the queen could change shapes and appearance, as a beautiful young woman usually during full moon, and appear as an old woman at other times.

Nyai Loro Kidul in a significant amount of the folklore that surrounds her - is in control of the violent waves of the Indian Ocean from her dwelling place in the heart of the ocean. Sometimes she is referred as one of the spiritual queens or wives of the Susuhunan of Solo or Surakarta and the Sultan of Yogyakarta. Her literal positioning is considered as corresponding to the Merapi-Kraton-South Sea axis in the Solo Sultanate and Yogyakarta Sultanate.

Another pervasive part of folklore surrounding her is the colour of aqua green, gadhung m'lathi in Javanese, is favoured and referred to her, which is forbidden to wear along the south-coast of Java. She is often describes wearing clothes or selendang (silky sashes) in this color.

Origin and history

Although her legends mostly linked to 16th century Javanese Mataram Sultanate, the older manuscript traced her legendary origin to the era of Sundanese kingdom of Pajajaran, the legend of ill-fated princess Kadita. However, Javanese and Sundanese anthropological and cultural studies suggests that the myth of Queen of Java's Southern Seas probably originated from older prehistoric animistic beliefs, the pre-Hindu-Buddhist female deity of southern ocean. The fierce waves of Indian Ocean on southern Java coasts, its storms and sometimes tsunamis, probably had raised the locals awe and fear of natural power, and attributing it to the spiritual realm of deities and demons that inhabit the southern seas ruled by their queen, a female deity, later identified as "Ratu Kidul".

The 16th century Javanese legends connects the Queen of Southern Seas as the protector and spiritual consort of the kings of Mataram Sultanate. Panembahan Senopati (1586-1601 AD), founder of the Mataram Sultanate, and his grandson Sultan Agung (1613-1645 AD) who named the Kanjeng Ratu Kidul as their bride, is claimed in the Babad Tanah Jawi.

According to Javanese legends dated from 16th century CE, the prince Panembahan Senopati, aspired to establish a new kingdom Mataram Sultanate against Pajang overlordship. He performed ascetic acts through meditating on the beach of Parang Kusumo, south of his home in the town of Kota Gede. His meditation caused a disturbing powerful supernatural phenomenon in the spiritual kingdom of Southern Sea. The Queen came to the beach to see who had caused this menace in her kingdom. Upon seeing the handsome prince, the queen immediately fell in love and asked the prince to stop his meditation. In return the deity queen, who ruled spiritual realm of southern seas, agreed to help Panembahan Senopati in his political effort to establish a new kingdom. In order to become the spiritual protector of the kingdom, the Queen asked to be held by the prince in hand of marriage, as the spiritual consort of Panembahan Senopati and all of his successors, the series of Mataram kings.

One Sundanese folktale is mentioned about Dewi Kadita, the beautiful princess of the Pajajaran Kingdom, in West Java, who desperately fled to the Southern Sea after being struck by black magic. The black magic was cast by a witch under the order of a jealous rival in the palace, and caused the beautiful princess to suffer disgusting skin disease. She jumped into the violent waves of the Ocean where she finally cured and regain her beauty, and the spirits and demons crowned the girl as the legendary Spirit-Queen of the South Sea.

A similar version of the story above mentions that the king (at the time), having her as the only child, who is planning to retire from the throne, remarries. Having a queen (instead of a king) was forbidden. The king's new wife finally gets pregnant, but, because of jealousy, forces the king to choose between her wife or her daughter. There was an ultimatum. If he chose his daughter, then her wife would leave the palace and the throne would be given to what would later become the queen. If the wife was chosen, the daughter would be banned from the palace and the new, yet to be born child, would be king. The king solves this by ordering a witch to make his daughter suffer a skin disease. The daughter, now banned from the palace, hears a voice that tells her to go to the sea at midnight to cure her disease. She did, and vanished, never to be seen again.

Another Sundanese folktale shows Banyoe Bening (meaning clear water) becomes Queen of the Djojo Koelon Kingdom and, suffering from leprosy, travels to the South where she is taken up by a huge wave to disappear into the Ocean.

Another West Java folktale is about the Ajar Cemara Tunggal (Adjar Tjemara Toenggal) on the mountain of Kombang in the Pajajaran Kingdom. He is a male seer who actually was the beautiful great aunt of Raden Jaka Susuruh. She disguised herself as a psychic and told Raden Jaka Susuruh to go to the east of Java to found a kingdom on the place where a maja-tree just had one fruit; the fruit was bitter, pait in Javanese, and the kingdom got the name of Majapahit. The seer Cemara Tunggal would marry the founder of Majapahit and any descendant in first line, to help them in all kind of matters. Though the seer's spirit would have transmigrated into the "spirit-queen of the south" who shall reign over the spirits, demons and all dark creatures.

Specialities

Sarang Burung are Javanese bird's nests, and some of the finest in the world. The edible bird's nests, in the form of Bird's nest soup or sarang burung, find a ready market in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore are dedicated to Nyai Loro Kidul, mentioned by Sultan Agung in reports.

There are three harvests which are known as the Unduan-Kesongo, Unduan-Telor and Unduan-Kepat, and take place in April, the latter part of August (the largest), and December. The places Rongkob and Karang Bolong along the south coast of central Java are famous for the edible bird's nests, made by the little sea swallows, called Salanganen or Collocalia fuciphaga. The harvests are famous because of the wayang performances which are held, and the Javanese ritual dances which are performed with gamelan music as the traditional ceremony.

This happens in a cave (Karang Bolong) and when these are ended specially prepared offerings are made in a shed in what is known as the "State Bed of Nyai Loro Kidul". This relic is hung with beautiful silk batik kains, and a toilet mirror is placed against the green-coloured pillows of the bed.

Nyai Loro Kidul is the patron goddess of the bird's-nest gatherers of South Java. The gatherers descend the sheer cliff-face on coconut-fibre ropes to an overhang some thirty feet above the water where a rickety bamboo platform has been built. From there they must await their wave, drop into it, and be swept beneath the overhang into the cave. Here they grope around in total darkness filling their bags with bird's nests. Going back needs very precise timing, to avoid misjudging the tides, and falling into the violent waves.

The Dutch and their Javanese legacy

The term wali which is applied to all of the Islam teachers is Arabic (meaning "saint"), but the title "sunan" which they all carry, too, is Javanese. Sunan Kalijaga used to be one of the most "popular" Wali Sanga, and he got deeply involved with Nyai Loro Kidul because of the water aspect (at the beach of Pemancingan of northern Java, kali means river). Panembahan Senopati Ingalaga (1584–1601), founder of Mataram's imperial expansion, sought the support of the goddess of the Southern Ocean (Kangjeng Ratu Kidul or Nyai Loro Kidul) at Pemancinang of southern Java.

She was to become the special protectress of the House of Mataram. Senopati's reliance upon both Sunan Kalijaga and Nyai Loro Kidul in the chronicles accounts nicely reflects the Mataram Dynasty's ambivalence towards Islam and indigenous Javanese beliefs.


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