Saturday, July 2, 2016

CHAPTER III JEW: A SYMBOLIC PHILOSOPHY HUMAN BODY




Bachelor house in the village, as well as other custom building, looks solid. The entire building, starting from pole pedestals, floors, stairs, walls, and roof appear as the same colour, the colour of the soil, brown. Afternoon sun slowly sank, leaving a light yellowish translucent, so that the building looks as if bathed in the evening light. Around the jew is home communities consisting of gaba-gaba walls thatched roofs, some of the houses have been amended with wood plank walls and a tin roof. Among the entire building is in every village, then became the only jew magnificent to accommodate the whole village at each meeting and ritual custom. In the jew looks smoke billowing furnaces, smoke continued to break through the roof of thatch as a sign in the ongoing life of a single room. Some people wowoipits-carver-looking middle sculpture with specific expertise not possessed any race. Some of the others seemed central making body ornaments of shells and fruit are bright red saga. Similarly, in the everyday custom jew when ritual not last. 

On top of all the daily activities and customs ritual, the jew still stood firm. Overview of construction of the building was implying anything, but when considered more deeply, the jew has a deep symbolic meaning. In the language of Asmat poles called amokon pedestals, poles fundamental meaning, a solid basis for the establishment of a home. Wood timber species bese girder using, peeled and unpeeled, also included other types of wood such as JII - wood bintanggur -, fii, Jira and others. Girder can not use a wood-kuru considered taboo or taboos. The wood used for the girder must have the durability and lasting value. This value describes the soul of the spirit of life. Skin type of wood used for flooring is wood jee, a type of eucalyptus that grows in coastal forests and eucalyptus similar easy-skinned and called sakare. In general, these tree species called jeme. Bark is deliberately chosen ith type of consideration, because kedu bark is easy to maintain as well as light, motion describing the freshness and vivacity of human life cover on it without a problem. Ta Wene or quarterly one, the fringe of sago palm leaves is used as roof and wall, as it is considered the most appropriate and durable. As for the wood pile stacked on the bearing girder back called fafewes. Pole frame located at the corner of fasisiwis. The poles were planted at the shaft house called Jale BUP wes, poles planted on the terraces is tenoko biwes. While the wood frame house located ridge called wenakam wes. Sipmokes are poles planted on the left side and the right side is called jiiwes jew. 

 Bakano bi wes located around the furnace. The entire wood frame serves as a unified force in wholeness. With that kind of wooden construction, the jew looks right as sturdy buildings, immovable when the whole village dissolves the traditional feast, dancing, swaying to thrill the entire construction. Meanwhile, according to Asmat people's beliefs, it is a form of body jew ancestors. The parts of the jew as well as parts of the human body with all aspects and functions. Berjumlh jew door with furnace and also in accordance with the existing clan jew symbolizes the human mouth, frame and wall are ribs. The roof symbolizes hair anyway. At first there were only a jew door on the front, later also finally made the back door that serves as a strategy of war. The back door serves to rescue when the attack came suddenly from the front door. Symbolically, the back door is defined as the rectum, where the release of impurities from the human stomach. Description of the placing is not as traditional building, home of the commons. However, more than that jew represents the presence of human ancestors as a construction body and its functions. This means jew give meaning to the lives of the Asmat in totality. Jew as the spirit or spirits that move throughout life to remain firm together.

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