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 THE NEWBORN BABY PLACENTA FLOATING
The tradition rite of the newborn
baby floating is an activity to make the rite habit, to
treat and to free the placenta of the newborn baby from
a spell. One of this placenta from a spell float the
placenta that make a rite to sweep away the placenta of
the newborn baby into the sea, it means the placenta
become one in the water, in the future the baby can be
hoped to have a wide perspective and getting a freedom
so he could be up against and adjust to the environment.
The series of this placenta floating activity was been
first by the newborn baby, after the baby was born and
was taken bath by the doctor, the baby's father washes
out the placenta and after that it got in to the pot
together with the symbolic things like salt, telon
flower, note book, pen, Al-Qur'an of verces, needle,
yarn and white cloth. After takes care the newborn baby,
the baby's father recite call to prayer over the
him/her and the placenta will be float into the sea. The
activities procession of this placenta floating is
beeing first by cucuking laku ( a kind of ceremonial
dancing) and it is followed by the baby's father while
bringing the placenta of the newborn baby and he is
flanked by grand father and grand mother, together with
the procession go to the sea and followed by a song of
Mocopat Dandhang Gulo from the mothers After the
activity of the floating is finished, they come back to
shore, followed by the same song, then tumpeng, jenang
sengkolo and other food have been prepared to eat
together after having prayer. In the evening there is
still an activity to show the happines for thye newborn
baby with hadrah & rodath atraction, Surabaya lenggang
dance and humoric stage.
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