"The Supernatural World Of The Dayak Tribe"

ONE EXAMPLE OF DAYAK RITUAL

Supernatural World for the Dayak tribe has been since ancient times is a characteristic of Dayak culture. Because of this supernatural also people abroad there call Dayak as a human eater (cannibal). But in fact the Dayak tribe is a very peaceful tribe of origin they are not harassed and bullied indiscriminately. The supernatural power of the Dayak Kalimantan are many species, for example Manajah Antang. Antang Manajah is a way of Dayak tribe to look for clues such as finding the existence of enemies that are difficult to find from the spirits of the ancestors with the media Antang bird, wherever the enemy is in the search will be found.

Red bowl. Red bowl is a media of Dayak tribe unity. Red bowls circulate if Dayaks feel their sovereignty is in grave danger. Commander "or often the Dayak tribe called Pangkalima usually issued a alert signal or war in the form of a red bowl which is circulated from the village to the village very quickly.From everyday appearance many people do not know who the commander of the Dayak it is mediocre, it's just he has extraordinary supernatural powers Believing or not the commander has the knowledge to fly immune from anything like bullets, sharp weapons and so on.

The red bowl is not haphazardly circulated. Before circulated the commander must create a custom event to know when is the right time to start the war. In the customary event the spirit of the ancestors will enter into the body of the pangkalima then if the pangkalima is Tariu "(summoning the ancestral spirits to ask for help and declare war) then the Dayaks who hear it will also have panglima

Mangkok merah ( Red Bowl)

power as well.Usually people whose souls are unsteady can be sick or crazy when hearing tariu.

Those who have been possessed by the spirits of the ancestors will be human and not. So usually blood, the hearts of the victims killed will be eaten. If not in an atmosphere of war never the Dayak people eat human. Heads are beheaded, skinned and kept for ceremonial purposes. Drinking blood and eating the heart, then magical power will increase. More and more enemies are killed so the person becomes more powerful.

A red bowl made of bamboo terraces (some say made of clay) designed in a round shape was soon made. To accompany this bowl is also provided other equipment such as red cherry blossom (acorus calamus) which symbolizes courage (some say can be replaced with yellow rice), red chicken feathers to fly, torch light from bamboo to torches (some say can be replaced with a bar matches), leaf rumbia (metroxylon sagus) for shelter and cord knot of kepuak skin as a symbol of unity. The kit was packed in a bowl of bamboo and wrapped in red cloth.

According to the story of heredity the first red bowl circulated when the war against Japan first. Then it happened again when the expulsion of the Chinese from the Dayak areas in 1967. Dayak's expulsion of the Chinese was not an ethnic war but more political content. Because at that time Indonesia was confrontation with Malaysia.

According to Dayak beliefs, especially the depths of Borneo which are delivered from mouth to mouth, from grandmother to father, from father to child, until now the unwritten result becomes more or less than the truth, that the origin of ancestor of Dayak tribe it is descended from the seventh heaven into this world with the Palangka Bulau "(Palangka means holy, clean, an ancak, as a sacred litter, a sacred thread of gold descended from the sky, often also called Ancak or Kalangkang