Muara Jambi – from Sloka To Seloko
- Keywords
- 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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TY - CONF AU - Elizabeth D. Inandiak PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - Muara Jambi – from Sloka To Seloko BT - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 10 EP - 14 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906059 ID - Inandiak2018/11 ER -