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Selapanan, commemorate Weton Baby

In Javanese culture, the birth of a child to the human world, in addition to a gift which is very large, also has a particular meaning. Therefore, the baby until the baby is born; the people have some Java ceremony customary to welcome the birth of the baby. A ceremony, among other is mitoni, ceremonies mendhem ari-ari (placenta), brokohan, (puputan) blowing ceremony, sepasaran and selapanan.
Selapanan made 35 days after the birth of a baby. In the days to 35, the day the baby is born will be repeated again. For example, a baby who was born on Sunday, Pon (weton its day), then this selapanan Day will fall on Wednesday Pon again. In the Javanese calendar, which amounted to 5 (Wage, Pahing, Pon, Kliwon, Legi) will meet on the day with 35 days in the Christian calendar, amounting to 7 days. Logikanya, to 35 days, they will meet a number of multiplier 5 and 7. Outside the logic that, selapanan have a very strong meaning for the life of the baby. Returning Weton baby to its day, worthy of celebration such as birthdays. However selapanan primarily made up happily as the form and the birth of a baby's health.
The first in a series conducted selapanan is a haircut or parasan. Hairdressing first made by the father and the mother of a baby, and then followed by elder’s baby. Its rules in this section, the baby's hair cut-out. Cut the hair is done to get the baby's hair is really clean, believed the baby's hair is a gift from the native born, which is still exposed to water fetal. Other reason is that the baby's hair can grow it, so the baby's hair at least 3 times as much as made so bald. However, in the tradition of this piece of hair, some people are afraid to clean out the baby; the hair-cutting is done only as needed, not in barren, only to symbolistation.
After a haircut, nails done cutting the baby. In this series, made reading prayers for the safety and good of the baby and her family. Hair-cutting ceremony was conducted after the baby's time Maghrib prayers, and attended by family, relatives, and the nearest neighbor, and prayer leaders.
Selapanan events conducted in the atmosphere as possible. Day afternoon, before cutting hair, people usually celebrate selapanan make bancaan distributed to the relatives and children in around where. Bancaan the value so that the baby can share the happiness of people in the surrounding areas.
The food must have a package in bancaan, the white rice and gudangan, which is distributed in pincuk (plates of leaves) from banana leaves. According Mardzuki, an ustadz who frequently pray selapanan event, vegetables used to make gudangan, it is odd number, because the confidence in, the number is odd luck. Gudangan also equipped with a snippet of boiled egg or eggs pindang, eggs, this represents the beginning, the origin of life. In addition, some vegetables are also considered to contain a specific meaning, such as long beans, baby so long age, and spinach, that the baby can rest of his life.

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Mitoni, Rituals for the mother and baby Candidates

Pregnancy is a phase in which the prospective newborn baby has begun to interact with the environment through the intercession of the mother. Psychological relationship between mother and child has been closely tied start from this phase. For Java, the pregnancy is part of the life cycle of a human being. Therefore, the presence of the prospective newborn baby is always celebrated by the people with the Javanese ritual called mitoni.
Mitoni itself derived from the word pitu or seven. This is because mitoni held when the actual entry age of seven months. Ritual is so prospective baby and the mother always gets safety. There are several series of ceremonies performed in mitoni, the splash of water as a symbol, having a speech impediment include chicken into cloth by the prospective mother's husband, change clothes, enter the ivory young coconut, cut off yarn / twist yarn / leaf, and scoop the pot, drinking herbal medicine shove, and nyolong endhog (stealing eggs). A series of ceremonies is trusted as a procession peril and expulsion from the mother and the accident potential baby.
Ritual mitoni loaded with simbolisasi. The ceremony splash of water, for example,
is a symbol of cleaning up all the crimes of the father and the mother of the baby's future. While chicken eggs enter into cloth candidate's mother is the embodiment of hope that the baby could be born without the barriers that means. Insert a young coconut ivory to slip in from the top of the stomach down to the prospective mother is simbolisasi that there is no obstacle in the way that prevents the birth of the baby.
After the prospective mother will switch clothes with a cloth 7 motif. Guests are asked to select the most suitable fabric with the prospective mother. While termination yarn / twist yarn or leaf after the turn of the fabric means that the birth went well. Twist that must be by her husband. Scoop or splitting the pot so that the meaning of later when the mother has, the pregnancy is expected to run smoothly. While the ceremony pushed drinking herbal medicine (encouragement) means the baby is born can be quickly and smoothly as disurung (driven). And last, stealing endhog or eggs, is the embodiment of the desire on the prospective father of the birth process that is running quickly, as soon as the thief steal.
To do mitoni, should be chosen that day really good and blessings. Javanese have a calculation in determining the specific days and hours that are considered less than satisfactory. In addition, mitoni usually held in the afternoon or evening. Day is considered to be good until Monday afternoon to Friday afternoon and night until Friday night. Mitoni can not be done in any place. Previously mitoni usual in pasren or place for the farmers to venerate Dewi Sri, Dewi Prosperity for the farmers. However, considering the adult is very rarely found pasren, the mitoni conducted in the living room or family room during the room was big enough to accommodate many guests. The oldest family members are often trusted to lead the implementation mitoni.
After a series of ceremonies, the guests were invited to offer prayers together for the safety of the mother and the potential baby. Not sure after that they will be given the blessing to take home. Thanks to the rice is usually a side dish with full.

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