Train Jamasan Kraton Yogyakarta

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October 14, 2009

kereta In Yogyakarta Palace, the objects are referred to always be washed with the name “dijamasi” in Sura (Muharam) and always on a special day Kliwon Friday, or Tuesday Kliwon. Jamasan way itself is also unique. All those involved in the ritual should wear Peranakan Javanese traditional clothes. They, all male, wearing a long cloth, surjan, and headcloth headgear. Like the Kliwon Tuesday morning at the Roman calendar month of April, a train dijamasi. The trains were made in the 1750′s, during the reign of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, was named Kanjeng Nyai amulets. The train ride was a Sultan Hamengkubuwono I – III. Train every month that’s always in the jamasi Sura because it is considered as the initial train-train going the other.

Graceful shape, style train kingdoms of Europe, with four wheels, two large pieces in the back, and two in front of the rather small, estimated to be drawn by six to eight horses. A symbol of authority of a king. Trains full of carved itself a door and a roof to look like a car.

The train was kept in the Yogyakarta Palace Railway Museum. There were about a dozen mostly trains can still be used. Each Kanjeng Nyai dijamasi amulets, “he” is always accompanied by one of the other train alternately selected each year.

Jamasan led by Raden Tumenggung Kanjeng Kudadiningrat, a palace official who specialized in railway maintenance problems.

Used wash water fight

If the procession from going out alone is worth the train tour, so when the train washing process also has a tourist value of religious ritual magic. The foreigners will be amazed at the hundreds of people witnessed Java, even outside of Java when he heard the style of speech, snatch dishwater former coach with a way to accommodate the flow of water from the body of the train.

Water former laundry are included in the bottled water bottles and jerry cans. Needless to say, people who fight over water. From the beginning until now, the people of Yogyakarta believe that all objects from the palace that has a powerful efficacy for these objects belonged to the powerful. Therefore, with this water, people expect, they become powerful families. That is, healthy wal afiat.

This jamasan water repellent reinforcements can be used for, or it could be for the fertility of paddy fields. Seeing how people fight over water, it looks funny. Two people berkain grandmother with long gray hair, reckless bent under the train to accommodate the rinse water stream is taken through the train pipe water hydrant in front of the museum. Several other people, because lazy competing water near the train, waiting for the direct flow of water in the trench. Water that he dipper with his hands, the sweep into the face and hair with reverence. Perhaps that belief is a blessing.

In fact, in addition to jamasan train, in the palace there is also jamasan heritage. However, it jamasan heritage should not be seen by the public. Jamasan heirloom mystery itself is finally living the mystery of who kept generations. Mystery heirloom that is believed to have natural super powers itself.

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