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| Warok Character in Reyog Dance (wikipedia.com) |
Warok is the most popular character on Reyog dance, beside Reyog it self. The character of Warok describing a strong and wise people who always stand on righteousness. On stage, warok is more seen as punggawa or guard of King Klana Sewandana (young warok) or senior and teacher (old warok).
At the earlier culture of Ponorogo, Warok known as warrior with their way of life and principles. They mastering martial art and magic for self defense or conquer the other warok on dominance the power and authority.
In effort gaining strengths and magic most of warok must avoid having sex with women. Therefore warok often adopt a young boy to serve him as Gemblak. The rumor said if between warok and gemblak usually occur homosexuality behavior. Even until this recent time , the evidence of this beahior hard to find, the rumor never dissapear.
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| Mbah Wo Kucing (Warok in real - the departed) |
Until now, warok are still regarded as seniors in society. His closeness with spiritual world often makes warok give people advice on spiritual principle or peace in life. People say warok has to master Reh Kamusankan Sejati, the real human’s path. Warok is a troop which relies on truth in battle between kindness and badness in reog art story. Old warok is a protecting figure, while young warok is warok who is still seeking knowledge. Until now, warok is perceived as a figure who has to have certain magic power.
Warok, The Story of Ponorogo Warrior
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