ABC OF CHAOS

Sunday, December 11, 2005

an example of sincretism

The traditional Javanese philosophy is basically based on

sincretism

in an amalgam of Hinduism and Islamism.

What I meant by

Javanese people

is those people who are living in central and eastern Java island - Indonesia.

The Javanese philosophy is based upon Primbon - the mythical dictionary of Java.

The traditional Javanese people used

primbon

to set up a new house, preparing a new life, marriage ...