BAMBU GILA

BAMBU GILA

The game was called traditional bamboo smell mad magical. This attraction is often demonstrated in a variety of custom events and arts on the island of Halmahera. In the game, someone who has the knowledge to control a piece of bamboo held by approximately 7-9 people boys (numbers must be odd). They hugged bamboo with his wrist. Then the handler to transfer knowledge to workers in bamboo, bamboo can move up, even fly. Quite often the children come fly with bamboo crazy.

 

             Bamboo is also crazy hand movements controlled by the handler who holds it smoky. If the hand moves to the south, then bamboo will be moving south. Similarly, if the handler's hand moving toward the west, then bamboo will move westward. Children who holds the bamboo just giggle clutching bamboo crazy it from falling.

         Before starting the show, the handler perform rituals with incense burning inside the coconut shell and read incantations. Spells are spoken using the 'language of the land', the ancestral language of the Moluccas. When the handler perform rituals, do not be surprised if a lot of fumes and mystique that you felt in your venue. The ritual is believed to call the spirits of the ancestors to 'fill' the bamboo to be used.

 

      In the past, in the Sultanate of Ternate, residents using bamboo crazy to push the boat kora-kora from the mainland to the sea. Some people, numbers must be odd, flanking bamboo in their arms and stood in the back of the boat. With formula chanted handler, bamboo also has the power to push kora-kora.

       A total of 700 participants and 100 handler featured 100 bamboo crazy (baramasuwen), a traditional game in North Maluku and Maluku, as part of the Festival Legu Gam in Ternate, North Maluku, Friday (20/4/2012). This attraction listed in the Indonesian Museum of Records as bamboo crazy with the most participants.100 bamboo looks crazy to be listed in the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) as well become one of the attractions in the Gam Legu cultural festival, which has been on going since March 25 and end April 21. In addition, as part of the culture of the game was also shown that the existence remain stable.

Source:ENSIKLONESIA