Asmat people sure that they are descendants of the gods who descended from the unseen world which is across the sea behind the horizon, where the sun sets each day. Asmat people Menururt beliefs, the god's ancestors first landed on Earth in a distant place in the mountains. On his way down to the downstream until he arrived at the place now occupied by the Asmat people downstream, he experienced many adventures.
In the mythology of the Asmat people who live in the Bay Flaminggo example, the god Fumeripitsy name. As he walked from sungau upstream toward the ocean, he was attacked by a giant crocodile. The host mortar boat sank. In the dog fight was going, he can kill the crocodile, but he himself was severely wounded. He carried mendamparkannya current Asewetsy river, the village Syuru now. Fortunately there is a bird that Flamingo care until he recovered, and afterward he built houses and carving yew two beautiful patug and make a drum em, powerful sound. After he finished, he began to dance continuously without stopping, and the power of magic comes out of the movement that gives life to both the carved statue. Soon the statues begin to move and dance, and they later became the first human couple, the ancestors of the Asmat (Zegwaard 1955).
It is very interesting in this myth is the common idea of creating the world in the way of narrating mythological god Shiva created the world and affects all human beings with nature to move and live. Mite is reflected in the statue of the famous Hindu classic called Syiwanataraja.
After that came back a giant crocodile also attacked the two men tried first one, but also can kill Fumeripitsy; crocodile severed head and body cut into pieces small, which threw into all corners of the compass. Crocodile pieces that had to be ancestors of the tribes who lived in homes around the Asmat people and their enemies. Thus this myth describes the first-hunting action and the creation of man by Fumeripitsy Asmat enemy. It also symbolizes the Mite recycling process of life and death (Smith 1970; Schneebaum 1985).
Traditional concept of the Asmat people live based on the belief in an area across the horizon had unraveled. Because they had when the ancestors mengendaki continuation of lineage, they send a certain spirit to the earth through a shaft of sunlight, which landed on the roof of the house where lived a woman who was destined to be a spirit from the boy's mother said. The woman will become pregnant and later gave birth to a baby. Although the Asmat people know that the sex associated with the birth of a baby, its function is only to give shape to the human spirit into the mother's womb. In this case the role of the father of the baby with a sculptor who gives shape to the timber provided by nature to him (Zegwaard 1953).
Asmat people sure that the environment in which human lives are also still many of their spirit for the three groups, namely: • yi-ow, or the spirit of its ancestors who are basically good, especially for the offspring. • osbopan, or evil spirits who bring disease and disaster. • plop-ow or evil spirits of dead people silly (Zegwaard 1953).
Souls yi-ow is the guardian of sago forests, lakes and rivers full of fish and forests full of game. Asmat people communicate symbolically with the yi-ow with repeated presentation ceremony which is usually led by ndembero, or ceremony leader. Ozbopan souls are considered to inhabit a particular tree species, caves deep, large stones that have special forms, but also live in the body types of a particular animal. Illness and disasters are usually caused by evil spirits, which also must be satisfied by a man with a variety of ceremonial offerings. Unlike the presentation ceremonies to communicate with the yi-ow, ceremonial offerings to the osbopan not be repeated, but only if someone is sick and when disaster strikes. Souls try to ensure not too often near human habitation, by conducting a series of restrictions, and sometimes with protective magic.
Conception of Asmat people of the same death in many other cultures. They believe that every human being has at least six spirit that animates some of the different parts of the body. Various known disease caused by the Asmat people that animates the soul of a sick body that is away or disappear (Amelsvoort 1964: p. 55-56). That is why how and techniques used by shamans namer ow the disease to heal the sick is to seek to persuade souls or leave it to return to the patient's body earlier. If a few souls who have gone and could not be persuaded to return, the patient in question would die.
Asmat people such conception of death is the departure of one or more of the human soul to never return again. Souls who free themselves from the man's body into the spirit of wandering around human habitation. After some time the spirit will go into the world of spirits behind the horizon, and there eternal life or after a time returned to earth and live again in the body of a baby.
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