Batak Mandeling Ceremony

1. Gordang Sambilan for Sacred ceremony Gordang sideline is custom drum consisting of nine  pieces of drum a relatively large and length used in wedding ceremonies,  coronation and death.. Sabe Sabe scarf  customs used to ceremonies and traditional dance called the Tor-Tor.    Margordang, Gordang sideline.Visible leader gordang (Jangat) was showing his skill in front of thousands of people in Tarlola Sibanggor Gordang Sambilan is the nation's cultural heritage Mandailing and second to none in the other ethnic cultures in Indonesia. Gordang sideline recognized by experts / scholars ethnomusicology as an ensemble muzik which especially in the world. Therefore,  In the past in each of the autonomous kingdom in Mandailing must have Gordang Sambilan ensemble. This sacred musical instruments in place in Sopo Godang (Central Council of Indigenous Peoples and Governance Kingdom) or in a special building \ called Sopo Gordang located close to the Bagas Godang (residence of the king). Gordang Smbilan used onlyceremonies and celebrations for Eid al-Fitr. a.Gordang Sambilan  Instruments Picture of gordang Sambilan Gordang Sambilan consists of nine pieces of the drum with a large size and length. Gordang sambilan consists of nine pieces of the drum with a large size and length. Large size and length to nine of drum is stratified, starting from the largest to the smallest. Gordang Sambilan have nine drum named three hides, jom, saba saba jae Julu, udong-kudong, tampul tolang, Tepe-Tepe, and so forth. This attraction could take up to 1 hour in one attraction. Resonator tube Gordang Sambilan made of wood and one end of the hole (the head) covered with a membrane (Made of cow leather are tightened with a cane as a means of fastening).To ring Gordang Sambilan use wood bats. Each drum in the ensemble GordangSambilan has its own name. His name is not the same in all places throughout Madailing because the Madailing living with indigenous traditions the democratic freedom to be different. Traditional musical instruments Gordang Sambilan  equipped with two ogung (gong) ofthe greatest called boru-boru ogung (female gong) and the smaller one called ogung males (male gong), one more gongs called Doal and three smaller gong called salempong or mong-mongan. Gordang Sambilan also equipped with brass made of bamboo called sarune or saleot and a pair of small cymbals called rope sasayat. B. Use of Gordang Sambilan     The days before Islam Gordang casual use for the ceremony summon the spirits of ancestors. The ceremony is called paturuan Sibaso (summon spirits to penetrate / transformer intermediary of  Sibaso). The goal is to ask for help the spirits of ancestors, overcome the difficulties that are befalling the people,such as infectious diseases. Gordang Sambilan also used for ceremonies ask for rain or stop raining that down too long and cause damage. Moreover used for wedding ceremonie  called  Orja Godang Markaroan Boru and funerals called Orja Mambulungi. The use of odd Gordang for both the ceremony (interest personal) is must first obtain permission of traditional leaders called Namora  Natoras and from the King as head of government. License application was made through a custom consultation called markobar custom which was attended by figures Namora Natoras and King along with the party which will hold the ceremony.   Gordang sideline in the Marga   Apart from having obtain permission of Namora Natoras and King. Gordang Sembilan in the both of  ceremony must be slaughtered at least one adult male buffaloes if condition are not met the Gordang Sambilan should not be used.   Bombat players int the death ceremony   For funerals (Orja Manbulungi) used only two the largest of instruments Gordang Sambilan are called but in the context of the organization funeral ceremony he called Bombat. Use Gordang Sambilan in traditional ceremonies accompanied by a demonstration custom oversized objects, such as custom flags called Tonggo   Greatness Umbrella called Umbrella Raranagan. Sarama / Dancer Credit: M. Lubis Dolok Gordang Sambilan  also used to accompany dance called Sarama. Penyarama (the person doing the dance Sarama) sometimes run into a trance (trance) dance entered by the spirits of ancestors. Likewise, the players Gordang Sambilan. At this Gordang Sambilan  still used by the Mandailing people as a traditional musical instrument of the sacred, also placed as instrument of traditional arts Mandailing which became popular in Indonesia and even in Europe and the United States. Because in some tour Indonesia's traditional arts Continent has been introduced Gordang  Sembilan. There are a lot of people Mandailing in Malaysia were already using Gordang Sambilan for various ceremonies. With placed Gordang Sambilan as a musical instrument Mandailing traditional arts, Gordang Sambilan then also be used for various purposes outside the context of Mandailing ceremonies. For example, welcomed the arrival of the great guests, national celebrations and the opening large ceremonies and to celebrate the Feast of Adul-Fitr. Parsuling and Paronang-onang was demonstrated skill in the rhythm Gordang Sambilan Paronang-Onang can bring poetry the spontaneous good and bad in the lyrics. Sometimes the audience can be laughing and can also cry to know the contents onang-onang. Onang-Onang is also a cultural which became extinct in the Mandailing. Need to be included in the curriculum of local (regional language) Manortor, a traditional dance. The legend says manortor should only be performed on traditional party and feast the of the king's marriage of son or daughter. Marmoncak or martial arts attractions of martial  art  which is widely known in Mandailing and Minangkabau. To be able to do this attraction, should  offset  with skill and astute an  adequate. There are times when this attraction equipped with weapon actually like a knife if the player does not astute might bring danger to him.

Mamodil or shoot the arts which was considered modern.Traditionally known Mangultop of activity the shooting of birds with simple equipment of bamboo as a barrel of a gun and the cork sticks spiked with palm fiber as a bullet. Not uncommon this bullet can kill a bird with a range of up to 50 meters.

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Ulos Cloth

Three basic color of the Ulos Cloth,  namely red, black and white. Level of difficulty of making ulos cloth were different.

Some of these types ulos-Sabe Sabe (typical Batak Mandailing ulos cloth), sibolang, ragihotang, Mangiring, sadum, Harungguan and others. Price ranges from ulos cloth tens of thousands to millions of dollars. It depends on the type, pattern and material.

According to tribe Batak Beliefs there are three sources of warmth of the sun, fire, and ulos cloth. Batak tribe mostly live in the cool hills, besides the sun, ulos also be a source of warmth for them.  Ulos cloth has an important role in the life of Batak society. Besides used in daily activities,   ulos cloth is also used in major events such as weddings,  birth and death ceremonies. Cloth has a distinctive ulos in Batak society not surprisingly, in ancient times, ulos cloth usually used by the royal family of Batak is a gold and silver. In addition, if there is some celebration of the events that do not use ulos, it is not legitimate event.

There are many teachings in the Batak tribes cloth ulos. One of them, ulos cloth should not be given from a lower to a higher position. For example, from child to his father. There are many other teachings and history of the Batak tribe about ulos cloth.

 a. Ragi Hotang Ulos

  

b. Sibolang Ulos

  

 c. Harungguan Ulos

 

4. Sadum Ulos

 

5. Sabe-Sabe Ulos

Shawl-Sabe Sabe used in Batak Mandeling traditions for ceremonial and traditional dances to the so-called Tor-Tor.

An old woman was weaving cloth

Si Abu Nasution’s Clan Origins

Si Abu Nasution’s Clan Origins

In antiquity in the region there are four people Penyambuhan brothers surnamed Nasution. Nasution was the fourth offspring headed toward Mandailing Jae to seek a haven or place of business that the new arrival in the village of Old Mountain, there is an agreement made in accordance with age. Then the oldest choose where he will stop, and then arrived in the village of Huraba, while the three men proceeded brother, sister both decided to stop at the village of si Abu. While the third and fourth sister decided to stop by to Pagaran Bira.

Who lived in the Si Abu’s village of the named Sultan Kumala Sian Nasution, he opened the riverside village called Aek Siancing at that moment, after several years of open settlement Sian Jade Emperor then married a woman who had an arranged marriage of his parents, after decades of this Sultan Sian Kumala have children and grandchildren, but her children and grandchildren do not live with him. One day a traveler cross with pain conditions are very concerned about the Sultan Kumala Sian offer to spend the night is getting worse plight he finally decided to try and treat it with high confidence that the traveler is finally rescued.

Once the disease is cured of the travelers moved on. Along the way travelers continued to tell about Sian Jade Emperor is able to treat the sick and opened the village close to the wood ash is very great that spread to the country, the people crowded was coming for treatment and many are deciding to stay in the village. Over time many of the merchants who came to sell under a huge tree in the wood ash called Los Siabu exactly in the middle market right now.

More and more of the wood could no longer accommodate the growing number of human beings and society were ultimately agreed to cut wood, the wood ash in the recalls by calling it by name Siabu`s village.s

Nasution Siabu our family ancestry

Zulkifli Nasution (our father) married with Darwati Hasibuan (our mother) and has fifeth kids :

1. Ardani  Nasution

2. Budi Nasution

3. Fatimah Nasution

4. Abdul Karim Nasution
5. Nurbaiti Nasution ( Azra Hyfa )

 

Marga used  from the father only, just male offspring to continue the clan to his son and women can only use it herself, prohibited married each other among man or woman with same clan (Nasution). because they are consider  be siblings. if the violation normally be exposed to penalties or households that are not harmonious. but wherever, whenever if it meets our clan smeans will be treated as siblings.

The Legend of Nasution’s Clan

The Legend of Nasution’s Clan 

 

The tomb Baroar, Nasution clan ancestors in Panyabungan. (Basyaral Hamidy Harahap & M. Hotman Siahaan, Orientation Batak Cultural Values: A Behavioral Approach Against the Batak Toba and Angkola-Mandailing, Studio Willem Iskander (a dutch man), Jakarta, 1987)

The Baroar

The Baroar is a legend that tells of the origin of the people surnamed Mandailing Nasution in the area of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

According to the story, the Baroar are orphans handsome. He has a face that is very similar to the face Sutan Pulungan son, King of the Kingdom of Huta Bargot. Similarity of both the child's face makes Sutan Pulungan and queen felt very humiliated, because people often mistakenly greeted the children. Finally, Sutan Pulungan decided to kill the Baroar.

Once upon a time in Mandailing, North Sumatra, there is a small kingdom called Huta Bargot.

The kingdom was located across the Batang Gadis River. King who holds Sutan Pulungan. He has a consort and son was a baby. In between busy taking care of the kingdom, Sutan Pulungan often take the time to go into the woods to hunt deer.

On a day with some people Sutan Pulungan commander and his soldiers to hunt deer in a dense forest. Sutan Pulungan bring his favorite hunting dog who is very smart and agile named Sipamutung. When they reached the middle of the woods, Sipamutung suddenly sprinted toward somewhere. Not long after, he was heard to bark with a thrill. Hear the barking his pet dog, Sutan Pulungan immediately ordered his soldiers to go to that place.

"Soldiers! Hurry up you guys one after another the Pamutung! I'm sure he'll find a deer! "Said Sutan Pulungan to the soldiers.

The order that some soldiers were rushed to the spot Sipamutung bark. Arriving at the place they saw a woman ( Baroar`s mom) rushing away from the shadows under a large banyan tree. While Sipamutung still barking. When the soldiers approached and examined under the tree, I saw a handsome baby boy lying on a boulder. Not long after, Sutan Pulungan arrived.

"Hey, soldier! Where the deer? "Said Sutan Pulungan.

"Please, Your Majesty! Apparently not find Sipamutang barking deer, but a baby, "said a soldier.

"What did you say? A baby? "Said Sutan Pulungan surprised as he approached the baby.

Who put the baby on top of this rock?" Sutan Pulungan asked.

"Please, Your Majesty! Servant does not know. But, when newly arrived slaves and others saw a woman  flashed very quickly leave this place, "said another soldier.

The soldiers heard the explanation, Sutan Pulungan was convinced that the baby was accidentally thrown away by her parents. Finally, he and his entourage decided to stop hunting and promptly took home that poor baby.

Arriving in the Country Huta Bargot, Sutan Pulungan handed the baby to an elderly widow named the Saua, who has long craved a child.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Servants will take care of this baby as a child of his own servants, "said the old widow with a happy heart.

Every time I went to work the fields, the old woman put the baby in the baroar, the kennels. Therefore, the people also named him the Baroar.

Time was passing. The five-year-old Baroar with a very handsome face. But strangely, the face and physique very similar Baroar Sutan Pulungan son, so that the people around him can no longer distinguish between them. People often mistakenly say hello when you meet with one of both children. If the Baroar walked alone, those who met him always saluted him and greeted him like a son to greet Sutan Pulungan.

But conversely, if it met the son Sutan Pulungan, they treat him like a son of the average person.

Upon learning her son often gets such treatment from those around him, Sutan Pulungan and queen felt very insulted. Therefore, they decided to kill the Baroar in secret so as not known by many people.

Sutan Pulungan collecting all the royal princes to the murder plan secret. In the trial, he ordered his immediate superiors to hold traditional ceremonies Godang Sopo, the ceremony a large pole replacement convention center that had rotted. Sutan Pulungan will hold the traditional ceremony on a large scale in the palace of the Kingdom of Huta Bargot, because he wanted to take advantage of the commotion to cover his actions killed the Baroar.

"How do we kill the Baroar, sire?" Said one commander.

"Before inserting a replacement pole into the hole where to plant, you first have to drop the Baroar into the hole, and overwrite it with a replacement pole," said Sutan Pulungan. Sutan Pulungan also ordered to a commander to give a cross on the forehead of the Baroar with whiting.

"Please, Your Majesty! Why should the crossed-Baroar? "Said another commander wanted to know.

"The point is that you can distinguish with certainty which of the Baroar and which is also my son, so that you

not wrong to kill the Boroar, "said Sutan Pulungan

Similarly, a district chief appointed by the King immediately seek the Baroar to give a cross on his forehead.

On the appointed day, the ceremonies will be held soon. The whole people of the country that will follow the ceremonies had been gathered in the courtyard.

During the ceremony Sutan Pulungan also organizes a variety of attractions and performing arts.

It aims to divert the attention of the citizens in attendance for the commander to carry out the task to kill the Baroar without their knowledge.

When the residents are busy rejoicing, the commander was preparing to put the pole into the hole

Just then, they saw the Baroar already marked on the forehead was standing not far from them. Clandestinely, they were immediately arrested and the Baroar dropped into the hole, then overwrite it with a big pole.

No one who knows what they have done, because the residents were having revelers.

The upstream Balang felt relieved and happy, because it managed to run the task smoothly.

Similarly, perceived by Sutan Pulungan, because the Baroar who always insulted him dead.

However, since the program was implemented, the son of Sutan Pulungan was never again seen in the palace.

The entire royal family into a panic and immediately seek Sutan Pulungan son.

They've been looking around the palace, but they still do not find it.

Sutan Pulung began to worry lest the commander erred in performing their duties.

For that, he was immediately sent out a district chief went to the house to see if the Saua Baroar still with him.

It was true. Once there, delegates saw the Baroar spliting firewood along the Saua.

He was soon back to the palace to report the matter to the King.

"Please, Your Majesty! It was the Baroar still alive.

He is still with the old widow, "reported the messenger.

Hearing the report, direct Pulungan Sutan fury.

He was very angry with the commander who have mistaken their duties.

"Hey, the commander! You have been wrong to kill.

Children who you put in the hole that is my son, not the Baroar! "Said Sutan Pulungan blushing

Apparently a mistake was started some time before the traditional ceremony was held.

Sutan Pulungan son saw a cross on the forehead of the Baroar. Because you want to like the Baroar, he had someone to make a similar mark on his forehead.

Then he went into the crowd ceremony, and that's when the commander arrested in secret, then put it into the hole.

Sutan Pulungan who has lost his son immediately ordered three men to kill the Baroar commander.

The third commander was immediately headed to the Baroar with drawn sword.

On arriving there, they did not find the Baroar and the Saua.

Apparently, no one who knew murder plan that will be conducted by the commander of the Baroar.

The man told the Saua to immediately save the Baroar. So, before the commander arrived at his house, he was carried off the Saua Baroar to areas that are yellowing paddy rice fields, not far from the banks of the Batang Gadis.

When we reached the area of rice fields, the Saua take the Baroar to hide in a hut whose roof is only a frame that stands in the middle of rice fields. Therefore, he believed that the commander is bound to catch up and find them before arriving at the riverbank.

"My son! We're hiding here alone! If we keep running, they'll catch us, because they can run fast! "Said the Saua while embracing the body of the Baroar.

The commander was suddenly lost track. When viewing a hut in the fields, they were approached. When it came near the hut, they move suddenly stopped. The Baroar Saua and the even more frightened, thinking that the commander is aware of their existence. But apparently, the commander was stopped, because he saw there was a bird perched on top

of Balam roof of the hut's frame while continuing to sing.

"Let our friends and find them elsewhere! For what we are looking at the old widow and the Baroar in the hut. If they're hiding in there, it's impossible Balam bird perched up there, "cried the commander who led the chase.

Once the commander is quite far from the hut, the Saua and the Baroar out of the hut and ran toward the Batang Gadis River. But unfortunately, the commander saw them again.

"Hi, it's them! Let's catch, "cried the leader of commander.

The Saua and the Baroar also run faster and faster. When they arrived on the banks of the river, Sungai Batang Gadis it was a big flood, so that they can not cross.

While the commander who pursue it even closer. They can not do anything else. In the state of life is threatened, the Saua immediately prostrated to the ground to ask help of God Almighty.

"Oh my God! Save our lives! "Said the Saua.

When her head back, he saw a large wooden Saua very long drifts across the river.

Surprisingly, a large timber that stops right in front of them in a state transverse to the other side.

Without thinking and feeling scared at all, the old widow and the Baroar soon climbing the great wood.

Once I got across the river, a large timber that floods washed away again. The new commander arrived on the banks of the river can no longer pursue them. Finally, the Baroar Saua and the survivors of the death.

That said, several years later, across the Batang River stood a royal girl named Panyabungan Tonga-Tonga led by the queen Baroar together. The breed became known as the people surnamed Mandailing Nasution.

The story so Baroar of North Sumatra, Indonesia. According to the narrator, the story Baroar including katogeri The legend about the origin of the people surnamed Mandailing Nasution.

Until now, this place called Huto Bargot and Panyabungan Tonga-Tonga became the name of two villages in Mandailing. In the village of Tonga-Tonga Panyabungan there is an old cemetery is believed to be the tomb of the Baroar

 the meaning of Nasution is magic child