All my happiness goes out to you
Pride and pleasure, joy, sweet tears, and love !
Reason, hope, and faith together move
In harmony to bless all that you do.
Let this beginning be the golden dawn
at which all dew-drenched nature sings its glory !
Nor should the darkness shrouding every story
Dim the blue eyed beauty of this morn.
More of life will come than you can hold
A flood no mortal witness can withstand.
Rest, then, within a quiet, gentle hand,
knowing where love is as you grow old.
Sep 17, 2010
Love Is As You Grow Old
Relicy Animal
Strong animals that still survive are called relicy animal.
Several relicy animals are as follows :
> Scleropages fish : a line of pocket fish that first lived in the world , found in Sumatera, Bangka, Kalimantan, and Papua.
> Heterobranchus tapei nopteru fish : a kind of primitive that is only found in Kalimantan, Bangka and Africa.
> Corateus fish : a kind of fish that breaths by lung, only found in Papua.
> Tarsius : live since tertiary era, the anatomy of its body is similar to an ape and human, found in Sulawesi.
> Lemur : a kind of animal that is half ape.
> Deer-hog : a kind of pig with fang penetrating the upper part of lip, found in Sulawesi.
> Anoa : a kind of buffalo found in Sulawesi.
> Cassowary bird : a kind of very tall bird, but cannot fly, found in Papua and Seram.
> Megapodeus bird : does not brood, but the eggs kept in sand or rotten leaves, then crack by themselves found in Wallace region and North Kalimantan.
> Cuscus : animal like an ape but has pouch, found in Sulawesi, Maluku, Timor, Sangihe and Talaud.
> Comodo : a kind of giant reptile, its length is until 4 m, found in Komodo Island.
> One horned rhinoceros is found in Ujung Kulon.
The Relation Between Hindu-Buddhist Traditions and Social Structure, Education, Arts and Technology.
The coming of Hinduism-Buddhism to Indonesia brought about some changes in different fields, in addition to the changes of Indonesian people's system of belief.
Social Structure of the Society
Period of Hindu Kingdoms
The change in the social structure of Indonesian people was the implementation of caste system in which the society was divided into four groups based on their position, economic status, and occupation.
The system consisted of:
1. Brahmin caste, was the highest caste in the social structure of Hindu people. The caste consisted of priests whose duties were to lead religious services or ceremonies and give advice to all levels of the society, including kings, aristocrats, merchants, and common people.
2. Kshatrya caste, was the caste whose duties were to take care of the country's security and improve the people's welfare. This caste was made up of kings and soldiers. A king was regarded as a descendant of gods, and he ruled his country under the order of gods.
3. Vaisya caste, was the caste for merchants and farmers. This group was a very important component of the society because the farmers were responsible for producing foodstuff while the merchants were responsible for marketing the products. Without this group, the people's needs for food would not be fulfilled.
4. Sudra caste, was the caste with the lowest position. This was because the people constituting this caste did not have enough wealth or belongings except physical power to support their lives. These people generally worked for the higher castes as maids or skilled labourers.
Apart from the four castes above, there was still another caste which no accepted by the society because the members were unable to adapt to the society's norms and customs, this caste was called Pariah.
This grouping of peopld was estimated to take place during the Veda period (1500-500BC). The groups of people were commonly referred to as four-colours, and the term caste was introduced by the Portuguese.
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