Folklore And Legends
FOLKLORE ABOUT SITTING IN THE STOMACH

Selamatan sitting belly nan during this time held in Gorontalo, Limboto is not just a casual salvation, but it has become a custom there that every husband and wife couple has been done in a legal marriage contract, nan, so in order to get pregnant the first held a sinking sitting stomach, which originally came from King Zulkarnain. Just an introduction, let's first find out about who and how exactly the Zulkarnain before becoming king, and at the same time be our introduction to understand the contents of the story nan actually.

Before Zulkarnain became king, indigenous stakeholders played an important role in society at the time, so that at one time Zulkarnain was visited by one of the customary stakeholders and asked for his willingness to be appointed king at that place. Hearing such a request, Zulkarnain replied and said, “I am not ready to be appointed king in this place, because I am still temporarily cravings for disease, that boils on my head that is getting bigger and bigger so it looks like it already resembles a horn.”

The traditionalist answered with optimism that he would try with all his might to overcome the problem, and finally it turned out that his efforts succeeded well, namely by cutting the legs of his trousers. Then the part of the cut was handed to Zulkarnain with the intention that he wear as a cover of his head and can cover the boil that already resembles the horn, until now, trousers from the indigenous stakeholders in Gorontalo are only between books with ankles. For the reason Zulkarnain has been overcome well, so Zulkarnain was officially king in Gorontalo.

At the beginning of his reign as king, at one time Zulkarnain ordered the royal officers to find a Hairman, a Hairdresser, how long after they had found and kept coming together they went straight to the king. The King said to the hairdresser, “You will I make my hairdresser my permanent one, but with the record you must be honest and faithful, for I have horns, and you shall not tell anyone. If you will reveal the secret of my horned state, then I will tell you to kill.”

Hearing the King's word, the hairdresser agreed, and expressed his willingness to the King. He began to perform his duties well continuously and until his death he never tarnished the trust of the King to himself, so that no one in the community could know the secret about the state of the horned King.

Upon his death, it was very difficult for the King to think about who would be able to replace the honest handyman, then immediately ordered the royal officer to go find the handyman in question, and no matter how long they return to the King together with the future successor of the dead in the task of trimming the King's hair. As soon as the King saw the candidate, he immediately said, “I actually have a permanent barber, but it is very recommended because he is now dead, he has gone before us all to the Baqa realm. So I ask that you be willing to replace the task with a note, you cannot tell anyone. If you will reveal the secret of my horned state, then I will tell you to kill.”

Thus the King's decree was immediately greeted warmly by the barber. Begin to carry out his skills carefully know he clearly and clearly that the King is really horned and cause him to always restless and can not calm down, I don't think he harbors that weird thing. In the atmosphere of the bathin full of question marks, he began to look for all the distribution so that it would not be a burden and heavier in his soul, so he went alone into the middle of the wilderness.

The longer he went, the longer the distance he traveled and finally he arrived at a large and branching tree, so do not hesitate anymore he immediately channel what nan into a burden of his soul so far. The kind of channeling he did in that place was to shout with all his might and all his content and repeatedly nan his words, “Horned King, Horned King, Horned King.” Thus satisfied his heart, relieved of his feelings the burden of his soul, immediately he left the place and stepped back to his home.

Then at one time people from his village entered the forest with the intention of finding a good wooden trunk to be made into a beduk in the mosque. Coincidentally they got a large log and a hole, then they brought it to the village. Setiba in their village work together until finished, then hung in the mosque, and then sounded after the time of worship arrived. No matter how long it takes, the time of prayer arrives and the cocksucker must be sounded.

Instantly the bed sounded, astonished and astonished they had heard the sound in the form of a shout, “Horned King, Horned King, Horned King, Horned King,” while they were wondering which king nan actually meant the horned. How ashamed and angry the King immediately called the barber because he was the only one who knew his true state, and asked, he said, “Have you told the public about my horned self.?” Barber, answer, “gak!” accompanied by an explanation that he was at one time, because encouraged by a sense of uneasiness harbored a very strange secret, it was, keep going into the middle of the wilderness and yell at a branching tree repeatedly and as loudly as the words, “Horned King, Horned King, Horned King, Horned King,” and finally it turns out the wooden rod in question has been taken by others from there, then they make a beduk in the mosque.

However, the barber was immediately killed by royal officers on the orders of the King. Because he was innocent and then killed, so that finally after the body was buried with the will and permission of God Almighty, so powerful, his grave became sacred so that it attracted the attention of the entire country to go on pilgrimage there. Seeing the miraculous situation at one time one of the daughters of the King told his father and begged that he be allowed to go on a pilgrimage there.

His father replied,”Wait a minute, “let the crowd go back first all, only the father of children went there. No matter how long later, step both of them there, with the intention of going to visit the sacred grave. Three months after their pilgrimage there, suddenly at one time the girl told her father that she had since returned from the grave her menstruation was not down again. His father regretted it and immediately ordered the royal officer to call the shaman.

The royal officers along with a shaman came and went directly to the King, and the King immediately informed him that the menstruation of his girl had been three months not down and down again as he expected cold hand skills and special knowledge from the Shaman in order to guess whether the girl was already pregnant or not. Soon the Shaman practices his skills both by stroking the belly of the girl and in other special ways, then the results are immediately notified, that the girl was not pregnant just suffering from a disease in her stomach.

So he also has his own ways and demonstrations in terms of guessing what nan contained in the stomach of the girl. With complete certainty, the shaman informed the result to the King that the girl was pregnant, and the womb was eight months old and the baby in the womb was male, he said, then the shaman went back to his house.

How angry the King was over the incident that befell his family members, then told to kill his daughter. The wrong cruelty from the King to the ears of the famous shaman and then he came to the king, explaining that the content of the king's daughter is really a baby and a male sex, but the baby does not come from fertilization due to the meeting of the egg with the cell****** but rather it happens precisely because of the power and will of God alone. After hearing such an explanation, the regret of the King was truly unspeakable, expecting the shaman to immediately go looking for someone who could and could revive his daughter who had become the corpse. And as a guarantee at once will be given to anyone who can turn on his daughter.

The shaman immediately went, climbed the mountain, down the valley, infiltrated the thickets, and the thistles of the durinya, and finally arrived at the edge of a beach, from there his view, and, aimed at the high seas and saw there was a small island, then led him to the island. Moments later he arrived there, picked up by a man who was the only one living on the island, then he immediately conveyed the purpose of expecting the willingness of the islanders would be willing to revive the dead girl who was killed on the order of the king himself.

With sincerity, the islanders expressed their willingness, and then came the two facing the King. Upon their arrival at the King's house the corpse of the girl was already forgiven and had been rolled on a mat, because at that time the stretcher or dock was not yet known. So it was only with the roll of mats that the corpse was brought to the grave. It was fortunate that it was unachievable at that time that the islanders appeared to practice knowledge especially with his special demonstrations and readings and continued to step over the corpse three times. The first nan step is set with a pronunciation or reading “KUN BI IZNI” (Kun means so, so, BI means Izini means permission) later in the third step of the memorization or reading has been continued with “KUN BI IZNILLAH” (With God's permission) the corpse is moving, too, immediately the islanders pulled the keris from the plate tie and sliced all the caravan strings of the girl stood up, continued down the stairs with her hair unraveled. The islanders immediately requested themselves to return to their place.

From that moment, the day changed, the week changed and finally the gestational age became nine months and ten days, the girl's stomach hurt, the girl, the royal officer left on the order of the King immediately picked up the famous shaman, who had previously ascertained his conjecture about the contents of the womb, with a King's intent, nan, that if if it will be proven that the results of the womb are not a baby boy but other, then the shaman was immediately killed as well as the barber. Stomach no long pain, at the birth of the arrival and the result is a baby of the male sex, really right guess or conjecture of the famous shaman.

Because the conjecture of the shaman is right and has been proven by the truth, the addition of the presence of the islanders is precisely because the shaman's efforts are solely, the King wants to repay the services of the shaman, and the, as per the promise that has been said before, but only greeted with full sincerity so that the king does not need to give anything to him, he said, at the same time followed by suggestions immediately thank and recite a prayer of congratulations to God Almighty for the safety of children and the truth of the conjecture first, also the King to immediately give food to all shamans and alternately asked for help, since the womb is three months old until the womb is born, so there are as many as seven shamans who must be fed it.

Based on this advice the King immediately ordered the royal officials to cook the food in question, namely seven colorful rice dishes, with seven fish, roast chicken, seven boiled eggs, and a half, so each gets one part of each type.

But Zulkarnain ruled as king, but because he had ordered to kill the innocent barber, he was removed from the throne, and offered to be a kadhi or religious leader in the same place. Thus the king's oversized clothes were also removed including headgear covering his horns.

The offer to become a kadhi was rejected by Zulkarnain on the grounds that his horns would later appear to be indigenous people to not lose their minds, either, continue to cut off the arm or hand of clothes from one of the Shara’a experts (Syara’a is the implementation of religious affairs under the coordination of the local Imam), then the cut part was handed over to Zulkarnain into his head covering.

Until now Syara’a officials in Gorontalo Limboto still have two-layered clothes, the outside without arms and hands, that is nan called Sadainya (Sadari comes from the words Aware and he, he, that is, he or a syara official’a was aware and sincerely cut off his arm or hand, as long as the country has a kadhi or religious leader). Similarly, when held salamat sitting stomach colorful rice food, roasted chicken and boiled eggs continue to be served. Also the time of implementation, usually when the first content is 7 or 8 months old and is carried out by local shamans whose equipment is in the form of a sheet of nan mats on the floor and not on the bed, the place of lying the wife at the time of the celebration. Then at the time of the celebration there were also two young boys and girls, and the leaves of nibun or coconut leaves were used as a belt of the wife, bird shirt without arms or hands with a blanket cloth cover the back and legs, a keris worn by the husband and ready to step over his wife three times, immediately slicing the belt of the wife.

Meanwhile, interspersed also with questions and answers about the age of the content in question, then the salvation ended with the rise of the establishment of the wife directly down to the yard, followed by the entire implementation equipment was lowered and placed in the yard of the house. Thus the origin of the salvation of sitting stomach in Gorontalo.