Simbolisme Kembar Mayang dalam Pernikahan Adat Jawa di Kabupaten Kediri

Abstract

Indonesia is a country that has diversity, especially on the island of Java. Javanese traditional marriages have the characteristics of exchanging Kembar Mayang exhanges. Mayang wins have carved forms of Janur. Namely in the form chrysanthemums, manuk-manukan, kitiran, uler-uleran, janur ajur. This study uses qualitative research methods with a cultural approach. The purpose of this study in to find out (1) The legend of Kembar Mayang, (2) the eatly history of the Kembar Mayang, (3) the meaning of the Kembar Mayang, (4) The Myths about the Kembar Mayang. The result of this study are the legendary story of the Mayang Twins is taken from the story of Jaka Tarub who  married an angel named Dewi Ratnaningsih, and the history of the beginnings of the Mayang Twins from Ratnaningsih’s marriage who looked nervous during midodareni night and asked his father to look for the Kembar Mayang, the meaning of the Kembar Mayang has the meaning of twins which means the same, while Mayang is likened ti a Mayang Jmbe flower. The myths that people believe are usually that if a marriage does not exchange Kembar Mayang, it will be difficult to have children.