watching "bamboo crazy" in the Moluccas.

 watching "bamboo crazy" in the Moluccas.




Mantra, frankincense, and seven strong men to fight against a bamboo pole with a length of about 2.5 meters and a diameter of 8 centimeters is interesting sights you can enjoy while watching "bamboo crazy" in the Moluccas.

After watching this show, you will feel a supernatural experience that may rarely or have never felt before.

This dance is also known as Crazy or Bara Suwen Reed. This performance can be found in two villages namely Liang, Salahatu District, and Village Mamala, District Leihitu, Central Maluku. In North Maluku province, the mystical attraction can be found in several areas in the city of Ternate and its surroundings.

To start the show the handler burn incense inside a coconut shell while reciting mantras in the "language of the land" which is one of the traditional languages ​​of Maluku. Then exhaled the smoke of incense, bamboo sticks to be used. If using ginger it was chewed by a handler with a spell and then sprayed into the bamboo.

Function or ginger incense to summon the spirits of the ancestors that gave the mystic power to bamboo. The spirits that make bamboo sticks as if crazy or shaken and increasingly tight and difficult to control.

Typically, in a variety of mystical attraction involving air, man who was possessed by a mystical spirit but in this dance called mystical spirit transferred into the bamboo.

When the handler repeatedly chant, the handler then yelled "mad, mad, mad!" Crazy bamboo Things began. The music begins playing when the seven men who held the bamboo began to feel the shock of bamboo crazy.

Bamboo is seen moving itself when the handler is blowing smoke and ejects ginger to bamboo sticks. The men who embrace bamboo began removing their power to control the strength of bamboo shocks.

When the music started accelerating, bamboo dance to gain weight and strength in it. Things crazy bamboo ends with the players fell unconscious in the show arena.

The unique thing of this show, bamboo crazy mystical power will not go away just before being fed a fire that burned through the paper.

Bamboo is used a local bamboo. However, the process of selecting and cutting bamboo is not arbitrary, because it needs special treatment. The handler first ask permission from the spirits which inhabit the bamboo forest.

Bamboo then cut by traditional customs. Bamboo cleaned and washed down with coconut oil and then decorated with fabric on each end. Previously, bamboo directly taken from Mount Gamalama, the volcano in Ternate, North Maluku. Currently, bamboo dance crazy studied and played outside Maluku islands.

Bamboo dance tradition is believed to have long crazy started before Islam and Christianity into these islands. Until now this mystical dance performed only in a few small villages.

Seeing this dance is a unique spiritual experience. Chant the mantra of the handler and the beating of drums creates a show that you can not find anywhere else in the world. Especially if you're crazy dance with bamboo, making it difficult for the experience you forget.