In ancient times, a dagger used as a weapon to fight or to fight one on one. At this time, the function of the keris is to complement traditional fashion. However, the dagger still respected, treated well. People traditionally appreciated the keris as a valuable heritage and art of high value goods. Keris rated high quality, if you have an elegant physical appearance and had great spiritual power.
Perfect People
According to Javanese traditional assessment, someone has considered perfect if he already has five programs: Wismo, Wanito, Kukilo, Turonggo and Curigo / Keris. Brief explanation as follows:
Wismo means house. People who already have enough income and home life certainly established.
Wanito. People who have been married and had a wife (as well as of course a married woman), that have chosen the right way of life and responsible.
Kukilo meaning bird. Philosophical explanation is: singing like a bird's melodious strains of music or gamelan. Hearing a soft voice, people feel calm, pleasant, happy. How beautiful, if a father, the patriarch spoke in a soft voice, it's certainly very soothing and fun the whole family.
Turonggo means horse. Horses are a practical tool trransportasi past. He can pull buggy or can be used for traveling ditunganggi. In this case, the person should have the vehicle life (having a way of life) that can be well controlled so that his establishment.
Curigo or Kris. Kris's sharp edges. It symbolizes sharpness of thought. It is very important that people have a sharp mind with a broad insight. It is the order of the days before. Now, some have claimed that the first sequence is kris reasons: a brilliant brain, intelligentsia are most important.
Kris & Theory Origins Supporters
Keris was originally a feature of the ritual (wasi-wasi prakara), which became part of the ceremonial dagger to the goddess of fertility goddess Sima. At that time, the keris is visualization conception phallus and yoni. Along with the development of culture in the archipelago, the existence and role of the dagger had been developed, where it started as a ritual dagger completeness extended to functions of more complex, some dagger into diluhurkan and exalted. Keris become a means of social status markers, dagger politics play a role also in the way the royal government at that time, the keris as a glorified sacred objects, as a means of religious, weapons of war, a marker of the number of years, and other precious objects.
