History Wayang Indonesia
Indonesia, Wayang-known by the Indonesian nation has since 1500 th. BC, because our ancestors believed that every living thing has a spirit / soul, there are good and some bad.
In order not to be disturbed by evil spirits, the spirits are painted in a picture (picture illusion) or shadow (wewayangan / puppet), worshiped and given offerings which became known later with Animism beliefs.
Our ancestral beliefs so long, but with the arrival of A-gamma Hindu new confidence that comes from India as well as customs and culture, then the picture (picture illusions) Spirit, changed its function. Previously to be worshiped and transformed into props to convey the teachings of religion. Such a case later imitated by Sunan Kalijaga (RM Said), one of Wali Songo to spread and develop a teaching of Islam in Indonesia, although here and there inserted the teachings of philosophy and religion of Islam, such as “amulets Kalimusodo” meant the two sentences creed.
Similarly, variations in the story than the story Mahabharata and Ramayana, are still a lot of stories adapted from the Panji stories, stories that developed Menak during Ngayogjakarta Sultanate Sultanate.
The development also forms puppet lami Why manifold developments, ie starting from the grass, tree bark, animal skin (leather puppet), wayang painting cloth (wayang beber) etc..
Puppet is not merely a spectator but also guidance in life to achieve happiness in the world and in akherat in the eternal perfection, so that the characters in the puppet on the identified with human nature and of nature in his daily life.
In wayang stories are common philosophy-philosophy of life and often used as a scientific study by researchers and students both within and outside the country, learn and explore puppet in Indonesia.
The world recognizes as the puppet master piece (master peace) work of Indonesian national culture that have predicate “Intangible THE ORAL AND WORLD HERITAGE OF HU-MANITY” by the United Nations through UNESCO.
in the year (898 to 910) M puppets have become puppets purwa and still is for the worship of the sanghyang as written in the inscription for mawayang Balitung sigaligi hyang, Bhima yes macarita kumara (his translation kasaran roughly like this: hold the puppet to the bima hyang told about the kumara) in this era mataram hindu, Ramayana from india work written in the language of ancient Javanese (Kawi) at the time of king Darmawangsa, 996 to 1042 AD
speaking Sanskrit Mahabharata eighteen parwa assembled into nine parwa ancient Javanese language and Arjuna Wiwaha mpu successfully prepared by the king kanwa in erlangga
until the time of the kingdom and the king Jayabaya kediri mpu sedah started building fiber bharatayuda ago panuluh completed by mpu not satisfied with that alone, then arrange panuluh mpu Hariwangsa fiber and fiber by fiber gatutkacasraya Centhini, the one who ordered the Jayabaya write to rontal (leaf ejection, as the blinds drawn, together with a rope) at the earliest times majapahit puppet ox drawn on paper (I also do not know what ‘paper cow’) and is equipped with a variety of decorative clothing
the early tenth century can be called the globalization of the ground phase of Java
animism began to be shifted by the influence of Hindu religion that makes’ his fame naik’ of ‘god’ is now ‘placed’ above ‘hyang’.
