Cempaka Culture and Tourism: The 'Grebeg Besar' Attracts Tourists

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, November 28, 2009

The 'Grebeg Besar' Attracts Tourists

Kompas, SATURDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2009 | 4:18 PM

Grebeg Besar procession, parading the heaps of offerings (gunungan) - Kompas/Ferganata Indra Riatmoko

YOGYAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The traditional ceremony bearing the full name 'Grebeg Besar Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat', which is held during the Moslem holiday of Idul Adha (1430 Hijriah this year), Saturday, attracted a number of foreign tourists in Yogyakarta.

They enthusiastically followed the whole traditional procession, and once in a while captured it in photos or videos. The procession was also spectated by the citizens of Yogyakarta and its surroundings despite the heat of the day.

The Grebeg Besar ceremony is a procession of four gunungans (heaps of offerings, 'gunungan' comes from the root meaning of mountain or heap), each called lanang (which represents the male), wadon (female), gepak, and pawuhan. All four are brought out from the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace then paraded through Siti Hinggil, Pagelaran, the North Town square (alun-alun) and finally to the Kauman Great Mosque, Yogyakarta.

A gunungan is made from food-stuffs, such as vegetables, nets, chilis, eggs, sweet potato, and other things made of sticky rice and made into the likeness of a mountain, to symbolize prosperity and fertility for the Mataram palace territories. The gunungan parade, led by a Manggoloyudho (war admiral) G.B.P.H. Yudhaningrat, was saluted with rifles shots by the palace guards when it exited the palace and proceeded through the North Alun-alun.

The gunungan procession was accompanied by nine royal guards, among which were Wirobrojo, Ketanggung, Bugis, Daeng, Patangpuluh, and Nyutro. They wore uniforms of various colors and wielded spears, keris (the Javanese curved dagger), and old-fashioned rifles.

Next the gunungans were brought to the Kauman Great Mosque, Yogyakarta, to be blessed by the palace clerics. Then the peak of the event was when the gunungans were given to the gathering people, who waited patiently since morning at the mosque's courtyard, so that they could rush to grab any piece of the gunungans.

The people who got pieces of the gunungans believe that every piece brings the blessing of the King of the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono, and that it would bless their lives.

The Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace throughout a year holds three kinds of traditional grebeg events, which are the Grebeg Syawal during Idul Fitri; Grebeg Besar during Idul Adha; and Grebeg Maulud during the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

The chairman of the Widya Budaya foundation of Yogyakarta, Widi Utamingsih, said that the Grebeg events by the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace are cultural heritages that attract locals and foreigners. The traditional event should be presented as an interesting tourism package that also preserves this culture as one of the lifestyle of the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace.

This cultural spectacle is a potential attraction for national and international tourists. Especially since the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat palace is part of the golden triangle ot tourism around West Java and Yogyakarta for foreign tourists. (acandra/C17-09)

Editor: ksp , Source : ANT