Tradisi Molonthalo di Gorontalo

Authors

  • M Gazali Rahman

Keywords:

syariat Islam, Gorontalo, adat

Abstract

This paper explores the ritual of molonthalo, a Gorontalonese traditional ceremony.  The molonthalo is performed regarding with the seventh or eighth of pregnancy. This ritual is aimed of express thankful and an expression ‘endowment’ searching by a person or group within the community who believe that there is a Supremy Being in their lives. This study uses an ethnography which is combined with socio-cultural, fenomenology, and normative. It has been found that the molonthalo ritual classied into ‘urf shahih dan ‘urf fasid. It is indicated that there is a relation between this ritual and Islamic tradition. Also there are a number of elements within the ritual are not compatible with the Islamic values. Therefore, a contructive reconstruct-totion to this tradition should be evaluated---that is aimed to Allah centris. Too, this tradition is initiated to prevent community from irrational magic, myths and animism.

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Published

2012-12-01

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