Wayang Bali

Wayang wayangan the word comes from the source of inspiration in the drawing figures exist and so the story can be clearly envisaged in mind that because the source of the original drawing was lost. At the beginning, is the puppet of religious worship, animism 'Hyang', that is the core of it is done, among others, in time, or yield in the form of ritual taneman Ruwatan, tingkeban, or 'merti village' to harvest in order to succeed or avoid all villages mala (peril).

In the year (898 - 910) has become a Christian puppet puppet purwa but still intended to serve as the sanghyang inscription written in balitung:





















sigaligi mawayang make Hyang, Bhima macarita ya Kumara
(meaning: the puppet for the Hyang told about the Bima Kumara).


In the days of Hindu Mataram, the Ramayana from india successfully written in the Java language kuna (kawi) Darmawangsa the king, 996 - 1042 BC in the Mahabharata sanscrit eighteen parwa built into nine languages parwa jawa kuna wiwaha ago arjuna successfully prepared by the kanwa mpu Erlangga the king. At times the king and kingdom kediri

mpu Jayabaya sedah start preparing the fiber bharatayuda ago, completed by mpu panuluh is not satisfied with only that, mpu panuluh ago hariwangsa and preparing the fiber and fiber gatutkacasraya according centhini fibers, the ones who ordered Jayabaya write to Lontar (Lontar leaf, prepared as shade, together with a rope) at the beginning of the Majapahit era puppet drawn on paper and is equipped with a variety of clothing decoration.

The period of the early-tenth century can we call globalization as a stage to the land-bred belief in animism started to change by the influence of Hindu religion that makes' Up 'Pamor its leaders' gods' who now' placed 'above' Hyang '.

Century until the twelve century is a period of fifteen 'secularization' puppet stage with a start make various Mithos glamorize the king as the direct descendants of the gods.

Fifteen centuries of globalization it is the start of phase two is now the influence of Islamic culture began to permeate the felt, and without in the early sixteenth century the kingdom of Demak stand (1500 - 1550 M).

Along with the fall of Majapahit kingdom in East Java, the kingdom of the artists and artists' migration to the island of Bali at the time in Bali kingdom is Centered in Swecapura Gelgel Klungkung. Area around the kingdom Gelgel environment, such as in the village of Kamasan, the artists village of Bali at that time.

Therefore, at Klungkung in Bali still leads Gelgel from Klungkung is a center of culture and art bali, Kamasan village and up to now still preserve the tradition of hereditary ancestor paint puppet. However, in line with the fall Gelgel Klungkung kingdom, and the kingdom - the kingdom in Bali have started stand-alone, the existence of artists including artists Wayang Bali began to spread that there are many districts in Bali.