Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)

Muara Jambi – from Sloka To Seloko

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Elizabeth D. Inandiak
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Elizabeth D. Inandiak
Available Online November 2018.
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Muara Jambi, Sloka, Seloko
Abstract

The language of Muara Jambi village has already established itself in the international world of archeology with a word grown on its own land: menapo. This is how the villagers refer to the mysterious temple complexes surrounded by walls and canals, many of which are still piles of ruins and earth mounds in the middle of their orchards and cocoa plantations. Archaeologists have not yet been able to unravel the mystery of these “temples”, so they’ve adopted the local term menapo. napo in the language of Muara Jambi is ‘the deer’, and me is ‘the location’. During the annual floods of the Batanghari river that is submerging the village under more than a meter of water, the menapo is the high location where wild animals from the forest take refuge like on Noah's ark.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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November 2018
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2352-5398
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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