Bone Traditional Ceremony Mattompang Arajang
Bone Mattompang Arajang Traditional Ceremony , South Sulawesi.
Bone Regency is the one of South Sulawesi territory, located in the east of Makassar City, the majority of the population are Buginese and become famous because of their richness cultural
One of the famous ceremonial events in Bone is a traditional ceremony to purify/clean up objects royal heritage of Bone Kingdom called "Mappepaccing Arajang" or "Mattompang Arajang", Arajang could be means an object or a collection of sacred objects, has a magical and once used by king or the royal princes in a long ago.
Procedures of traditional ceremony "Mattompang Arajang" has procession in a few stages, ie :
1. Mappaota.
2. Pick-up Arajang from places.
This procession begins by presenting the betel leaves in front of Arajang by Puang Matoa (Bissu leader) as an expression of appreciation to the preternatural while begged permission to purify of the Arajang.
After that the Arajang and his place was taken out from storage room by the Bissu then submitted to the Ritual Leader and subsequently brought and submitted to the king or the Governance of Bone to be remove from his place to do purification.
During the process in accompany with traditional musical instrument and Bissu dances called "Sere Aluasu".
3. Mattompang.
After Arajang removed from its place and then followed by a procession call it Mattompang (purification) which brings the Arajang to the purification place for purified "Pattompang", a procession was carried out by the Ritual Leader and Puang Matoa while in the accompany with traditional musical instrument call it "Bali Gendrang Sumange" until the process is complete.
After all objects was purified, then Arajang taken back to the King or Governance of Bone and put it back the Arajang into his place and then taken back to the storage room of objects royal heritage.
Some object of royal heritage that are purified are :
| • | Some objects are made of pure gold which comprises 63 pieces with a size of 1.77 meters in length, this object is an award from Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the king of Bone "Arung Palakka". |
| • | Sembangeng Pulaweng (its like scarf made from gold). |
| • | La Tea Ri Duni (its lake a Kris coated in gold and decorated with diamonds). |
| • | Lamakkawa (Kris and his place coated in gold). |
| • | La Salaga (A Spear, decorated with gold). |
| • | Alameng Tata Rapeng (Its like a Swords and his place coated in gold and usually worn by royal legislative "Ade Pitu") and other stuf like weapon of war. |
This ceremonial event Mattompang Arajang always held simultaneously with the procession anniversary of Bone Regency on each Dated April 6 for every year.
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