Mabbissu dance played by six men who dress like women with golden colored clothes and dagger at the waist.
Mabbissu dance is a bissu dance which means sacred or powerful. The dancers are called bissu because no menstruation, no bleeding, or sacred. It said it did not bleed because Bissu immune to sharp weapons, was unable to penetrate the dagger, machete or hot lead. In every ritual, the bissu always show their magic in the form of dance called Mabbissu dance or Mabbissu.
Mabbisu dance is usually performed by six major Bissu led by chairman Bissu. The Sixth Bissu dress up like a woman with golden-colored clothing and a dagger at the waist. After all the preparations are ready, to the accompaniment of a typical rhythmic drum beat, the dancers chanting mystic spells strains To Rilangi language (the ancient language of the Bugis) while dancing around the Arajangnge. Arajangnge is an object believed to be a sacred and ancestral spirits beristihat. In front Arajangnge it has prepared various offerings of traditional Bugis pastries, fruits, chicken and buffalo and cow's head as an offering to their ancestors.
When the strains of drums grew louder and faster, the movement bissu even more slowly and start them lose consciousness. At that time, if at the time they believed the spirits of the ancestors that have been entered into their bodies. At that moment the Bissu started modeling the movement maggiri. They release long dagger tucked into his waist, then thrust it into the palm of the hand, stomach, and their throats.
The aim is to test whether the ancestral spirits / gods that magic has penetrated into them. If they are immune, it means bissu spirit possessed him and is believed to give thanks. Conversely, if the dagger had pierced and wounded their bodies, meaning spirit possessed him is weak or even not at all possessed by ancestral spirits.
Maggiri 'this is the pinnacle of mabbissu dance, where their bodies pierced with a dagger. At the time of this maggiri movement exhibited, visitors will be amazed and astonished to watch the Bissu pierced hands and their throats with a dagger pointed and sharp, but it does not leave scars in the slightest, though pressed repeatedly with a vengeance. However, if there are requirements in this dance is not met, then the dagger will pierce their bodies.
Most of the visitors who attended the event, not only to witness the spectacular performances of dance, but have also come to ask for the blessing of the Bissu.
Mabbissu performances are often held in the Village Assaurajang, District Segeri, District Pangkajene Islands (Pangkep), South Sulawesi Province. Therefore for those who want to see this dance you can come to the village. Mabbissu itself is done to do down fields or early start planting rice in the rainy season.
Mabbissu Dance Video :
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