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The Offering: Sajen
Traditional sajen/offering is important in Javanese ritual.
- Together with the solemn, deep pray, the wish should be granted by God.
- Remembering the ancestors, their souls should live in peace in eternity and hopefully got a blessing from them.
- Avoiding evil deeds from spirit and human beings.
- The ritual should be safe and successful.
Mitoni's offering consists of:
- Old mat and plant leaves used for Siraman.
- A live cock symbolizing that the family could live well in the society.
- Seven kinds of rice cones, among other
Tumpeng Megana, with vegetables surrounding the rice. The sprout means ’growing’ in life;
Tumpeng Robyong, means safety;
Tumpeng Gundul;
Tumpeng Urubing Damar.
- Seven kinds of sambal:
Hot spicy side dish, mainly from chilli-peppers. (The life becomes active and creative).
- Sambal Rujak: Mixed slices of fruits with sambal sauce.
- Dinglo bengle herbs:
It's offered to combat evil spirit.
- Sweet cookies from peanuts:
The life will be sweet.
- Vegetable side dishes:
The children will be healthy.
- Seven Ketupat with ’abon’ inside:
Ketupat: rice boiled in rhombus shaped packet of plaited young coconut leaves;
Abon: slices of fried meat.
There is already a road prepared for the baby to come out.
- Traditional cakes:
Srabi and klepon (from rice and sugar).
- Eggs of turtle on Tumpeng Megana:
Turtle is strong and has a good instinct.
- Red and white porridges:
Red porridges is to remember and respect mothers, while the white porridge is to remember and respect fathers.
- Fruit.
- Different kind of cooked rice:
Gurih rice: cooked with coconut milk. Punar rice: cooked with Temuric (yellow rice). Kebuli rice.
- Dolls:
The parents should welcome the newly born child, whether it is a boy or a girl.
- The water dipper:
Used for siraman and is made of a rice coconut which is cut into two symetrically parts and still countains the coconut meat. There is a hole in the
bottom.
- A coconut tree is very useful, all parts of the tree i.e. the fruit, the leaves, the tree/wood are useful. Hopefully, the baby shall be a
useful human being.
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