Animal Mythology in Lampung Folklore

DOI

10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Animals; Lampung; Myths; Oral literature

ABSTRACT

Myth as a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin, is related to religion and practice and is believed to be something that exists. As part of world culture, Lampung has a lot of folklore. Lampung folklore contains values that reflect the richness of the soul, philosophy, character, and civilizational environment formed and nurtured in tradition. Many of the folk tales that developed in Lampung raised the origin of a place, the basis of a society, the source of creatures in the universe, and mythological creatures. However, not many studies raise the mythical animal phenomenon found in Lampung folklore. Therefore, this study provides an overview of mythical animals in Lampung oral literature and the function of these myths. This study used a descriptive analysis method with a myth-critical approach to reveal and describe the embodiment of animal mythology in Lampung’s oral literature. The data used were taken from field research in four districts in Lampung Province: West Lampung Regency, Central Lampung Regency, West Tulangbawang Regency, and Waykanan Regency. The results of the study concluded that the mythical animals that appeared in the oral literature of the people in the four districts were crocodiles, dragons, caterpillars, and garuda birds (eagles). The myth is interpreted as the relationship between humans, animals, and plants as a symbol of the responsibility of living creatures to coexist and adapt to each other.

Copyright

© 2022 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Diah Meutia Harum
AU  - Mukhammad Isnaeni
AU  - Evi Maha Kastri
AU  - Roveneldo
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Animal Mythology in Lampung Folklore
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 144
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_22
ID  - Harum2022
ER  -