Keris Ancient Dagger Private Collection

[Ddimitra]

Do you know Keris?

explain about it a little bit, in my own words. Disclaimer: Im not Curator, historican, or archeologist.

Let me

Keris is a dagger, its kind like a blade, but It had many purposes. Two of purposes that I knew, are

1. Power symbol or Icon Symbol
2. Combat purpose

Keris has different design based on the area in Indonesia. Usually they have spiritual powers, only ancestors can explain it. Sorry I cant, in here Im just represent my father collections, He inherited those collections, and now me and my brother inherit the Keris.

Cleaning Process Ritual, called Keris Bath.

Rendy, my cousin, can treat the Keris for oilment. He said, Keris must be oiled for preserve the blade from rusty. Some of the Keris made of special Stone from Meteor. The other purpose of oilment is for spiritual purpose. We called the annual oilment as Keris BATH.

You can see in videos there are 2 times we did the ritual, once in my mom house, the other in my brother’s house. The collection in my brother’s possesion are long and big Keris. The first video has English Translation.

Keris Dagger Ancient Heirloom Legacy from my father Java Heritage Indonesia ritual cleaning

Mandi Keris Besar Madura Ritual

After cleaning, we put back to the special cupboard.

oh this is 2 books about Keris that I found on my father’s possesion, I remember it would be more, I will find it.

I hope you enjoy the story of my dad’s collection.

[TravellerG]

Very interesting and informative post, dear @Ddimitra .

No, I don’t know about Keris…but familiar with Family Swards.

Both the videos are beautiful.

Ancestral collections are very important.

Bathing these swards…is it once in an year or some special days?

Yes, it will be worth to explore the books of your father’s collections.

I sincerely appreciate your efforts on this post - thanks for sharing with us.

Best wishes…

[Ewaade_3A]

I like reading this in your voice

I understand you putting out those disclaimers. Our families are so rich in ancient cultures and traditions that once upon a time, I decided to get my dad to share all of it in a place I could store; YouTube.

We did the first episode, then, my mum and sister convinced him ‘not to’, that I was about to expose details about our family.

I Was very sad

You are lucky to have a book to read about it. My father has a sword too, the last time I saw it, I was very young, I have never asked him about it, also, I have never seen him cleaning it too.

Thank you for sharing about this. They don’t look old one bit and it’s good to see your brother @Ddimitra

[Anil6969]

Good @Ddimitra

This is what we have been ment for sharing the knowledge

as says here.

IF I AM HAVING 1 DOLLAR, YOU ARE HAVING 1 DOLLAR.

WE BOTH WILL HAVE 2 DOLLAR

Knowledge sharing.

i didn’t know about this fact, Now a days this swords are being less used as automatic weapon replacing them.

inspiring collection.

thanks for sharing.

regards

Anil

[Ddimitra]

It has to be bath on special date, annually. But i cant afford to bath every year.

But if professional do that, i have to pay expensive fee. So i just asked my cousin to do that.

Thank you for stopping by.

[Ddimitra]

Wow, i wonder what is the culture you talk about

Im curious.

Btw Rendy is my cousin. My big brother in second video, the one older and use glasses too.

[Ddimitra]

Thank you so much @Anil6969 for stopping by at my post.

[NunungAfuah]

Nice post mba @Ddimitra , I’m a bit curious, did you ever had strange experience while those Keris in your house?

[br14n]

Halo mom @Ddimitra

Wow, memiliki koleksi sekian banyak keris, yang pastinya memiliki nilai sejarah dan budaya tertentu. Apakah keris-keris ini boleh dipegang tamu atau teman di hari-hari biasa? Atau hanya dikeluarkan dari tempatnya ketika ritual mandi keris?

[Ddimitra]

hi @NunungAfuah

Thanks for your kind words.

Me never experience such a thing, but my mom had. Cause Keris cupboard in her room, one night she heard some noise come from the cupboard, turn out keris want to be bath. its sasi suro.

[Ddimitra]

hello @br14n kerisnya ditaruh di kamar ibu sih, jadi ga dipajang, hahaha.

aku aja ga berani megang2… kok tamunya berani. hahahah

Thanks dah mampir ya

[Gurukrishnapriya]

A very informative post @Ddimitra

Here we have a special day known as Ayudha Pooja, to clean and offer prayers to all instruments and weapons. I remember a few things from my grandfather’s collection. My father’s collections didn’t have any weapons.

Thanks for sharing this information.

[AdrianLunsong]

Thanks for sharing this @Ddimitra . Certainly in our region, the keris has a very unique form factor and symbolism! It’s nice to see it get a spotlight!

[Ocoytea4995]

@Ddimitra waaaah postingan ini penuh dengan makna.keren mbak masih menyimpannya.

Salam kenal mbak dari cilegon banten

[Ddimitra]

hi @Gurukrishnapriya

I think our culture, likely same rituals.

fascinating to hear, India also has clean rituals

Thank you for stopping by at my post

[Ddimitra]

hi @AdrianLunsong

glad you like this post

Thank You for stopping by at my post.

[Ddimitra]

hi @Ocoytea4995 salam kenal yaaa.

saya dari Jakarta. Makasih dah mampir di post sayaaaaa

[AnithaM]

Wow very interesting post @Ddimitra . Nice collection as well. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Ocoytea4995]

@Ddimitra y mbak sama sama.dan makasih banyak ocoy bisa kenal sama mbak.

Selalu sehat mbak ku.aminnn

[Ddimitra]

Hi @AnithaM

Thank you so much for stopping by