User:FirstStooge/Kotak Pasir

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Semar's Philosophy


Kyai Lurah Semar Badanaya is a character in Javanese mythology and frequently appeared as the part of Punakawan (literally means "the friends who understand") in wayang shadow play. Name "Semar" come from the Javanese word "samar", means "shadow, mysterious, uncovered".



Semar is a personification of wisdom and populist live of traditional communities of Nusantara. Unlike other characters of wayang stories, Semar and other punakawan was not originated from Indian mythology and believed to be a artistically created since the Age of Prehistory in Nusantara. Semar represents a pure and ancient Nusantaran people's way of thinking prior the arrival of Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic influences on Indonesian Archipelago and become a symbol of ancient Indonesian culture that survives from the dynamism of history.



Semar is a very sacred and powerful deity in Javanese mythology. However, he choose to live among the humanity and become a servant for ksatria (warrior-heroes) instead. Semar choose this way to become "a link" between ordinary humanity and the One, the Almighty Creator of Universe. Semar sacrifices his destiny to cheer up the despair and to warn the triumphant about vanity, the realistic conditions that everyone experienced.

Semar reminded everyone that competition or struggle between good and bad, lucky and unlucky, rich and poor, believers and infidels, oppressing and oppressed, and other contrasting elements of life is just an illusion, just like his own name origin, "samar" (shadow). The only reality is an imperishable relationship between the One and all of His creatures that he had been representing for.



Semar has all symbolism of balance and harmony. His body representing a contradiction that mixed up being one:
 * He is an old man but has a topknot like a traditional Javanese children
 * He has a laugh that always ended with a crying-like sound
 * He has a sad face but with a smiling mouth
 * His standing posture almost like being squatting
 * He is man, but has a large breast like a woman due to his fatness
 * He never ask everyone to do something, but always give a consequence for his advice
 * He is the eldest and senior among other deities, but behaving and looking like an ordinary human

Semar brings a message for his people that if a human want to be a perfect creature, he/she must accept his own condition. Regardless their power and ability, everyone will vanished by the history anyway. No one will survive from history and that's what the history teach to us.

Africa

 * Flag of the UNIA.svg African Union (planned to revise)
 * Flag of Egypt 1922.svg Egypt (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Libya.svg Libya (planned)
 * Flag_of_Kenya.svg Kenya (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg Congo-Libreville (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Benin.svg Dahomey (57% completed)
 * Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana (69% completed)
 * Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia (finished)
 * Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Madagascar_(Myomi).png Madagascar (67% completed)

Europe

 * Flag of Europe.svg European Union (planned)
 * Flag of Finland.svg Finland (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Scandinavis flag.png Scandinavia (43% completed)
 * Proposed_German_National_Flag_1948.svg Germany (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Slovakia.svg Slovakia (46% completed and staled)
 * Estonian alternative flag proposal.svg Estonia (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Russia.svg Russia (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg Greece (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Free Territory Trieste Flag.svg Trieste (planned)
 * Flag of Italy (1861-1946) without crown.svg Italy (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of the Vatican City.svg Papal State (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal (47% completed)
 * Flag of the Second Spanish Republic (plain).svg Spain (started and developed the raw ideas)

The Americas

 * US flag with 49 stars by Hellerick.svg United States (started)
 * 500px-Flag of Argentina (alternative).png Argentina (planned)
 * 720px-Flag of Brazil.svg.png Brazil (planned)
 * Flag of the Federal Republic of Central America.svg Central America (49% completed)
 * Flag_of_Gran_Colombia_(A_World_of_Difference).png Colombia (51% completed)

Asia

 * Flag-of-North-China.png North China (39% completed and stalled)
 * Flag-of-South-China.png South China (30% completed and stalled)
 * Flag of Japan (Myomi Republic).svg Japan (48% completed)
 * Flag of Korea (Myomi Republic).svg Korea (finished)
 * Flag_of_the_Emperor_of_Manchukuo.svg Manchuria (finished)
 * Flag_of_the_Mengjiang.svg Mengjiang (70% completed)
 * Flag_of_Burma_(Myomi).png Burma (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Cambodia_(Myomi).png Cambodia (80% completed)
 * Flag_of_Indonesia.svg Indonesia (82% completed)
 * Flag_of_Laos.svg Laos (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Malaya_(Myomi).png Malaya (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Philippines Flag Original.svg Philippines (finished)
 * Flag of the Kingdom of Sarawak (1870).svg Sarawak (76% completed)
 * Civil flag of Sulu.png Sulu (planned)
 * Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand (started and stalled)
 * Flag of South Vietnam.svg Vietnam (finished)
 * 1931_Flag_of_India.svg India (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag_of_Pakistan.svg Pakistan (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka (planned)
 * Old Assyrian Flag.svg Assyria (70% completed)
 * Flag_of_Iran_(1964).svg Iran (started and developed the raw ideas)
 * Flag of Iraq (Myomi).png Iraq (51% completed)
 * Flag_of_Israel.svg Israel (50% completed)
 * Flag_of_Lebanon_(Myomi_Republic).svg Lebanon (80% completed)
 * Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine (50% completed)
 * Syria (planned)
 * Flag_of_Turkey.svg Turkey (started and developed the raw ideas)

Oceania

 * Flag of Aotearoa (Myomi).png Aotearoa (planned and developed the raw ideas)
 * Ausflag 2000 a.svg Australia (planned)
 * Kanaka Maoli flag.svg Hawaii (started and developed the raw ideas)