Dragon on Ceramics: The Perspectives of the Dayak on its Socio-religious Significance

by Nugroho Harjo Lukito

Abstract

The author points out that a belief, developed long before civilization evolved in Indonesia, has been professed and practiced by the ancestors. By employing symbols they attempted to create and find supreme element beyond human's logic that bear significant purpose to their lives. A symbol may contain, whether economic, politic, social or religious value that practically manifested depends on the manner possessed by the community itself.

(Source: Naditira Widya Nomor 5/2000:51-56; ISSN 1410-0932)