Divine Clown-Guardian

Type 'deity' (a god in clown-servant form), per schema. Sex 'intersex' reflects his canonical hermaphroditic body. In wayang cosmology he, Togog (Antaga) and Manikmaya (Batara Guru) are the three sons of Sang Hyang Tunggal born from a single egg (white/shell/yolk).

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Kanda synopsis: named parentageOnly the explicitly named parent or parents are selected; an unnamed mother is not replaced with a name from another account.

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: Sang Hyang TunggalThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
  Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• Wayang: three figures from an eggEgg transformation account, distinct from the Kanda’s four sons and unnamed leaf-created mother.

  deity by descent in this account.

  • parent: Sang Hyang TunggalBatara Guru, Javanese portrayal and names (encyclopedia)
  • mother: Dewi RekatawatiBatara Guru, Javanese portrayal and names (encyclopedia)
  Batara Guru, Javanese portrayal and names (encyclopedia)

Children

• Bagong
• Club-Footed Clown-Servant
• Long-Nosed Clown-Servant

Names and tradition associations

• Punggung Javanese · same recordThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• Nayantaka Javanese · same recordThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)

Domains

• guardianship of java
• wisdom and counsel

Powers

• guides and advises the righteous knights as a lowly servant
• outmatches even the king of the gods when roused
• The all-conquering wind (kentut)

Epithets

• ꦱꦁꦲꦾꦁꦆꦱ꧀ꦩꦪ javanese · Sang Hyang Ismaya'Holy Ismaya' — the divine identity of the clown-guardian SemarJavanese wayang theology; Tantu Panggelaran (secondary)
• ꦧꦢꦿꦤꦪ javanese · Badranaya'Guide to the Good' — Semar's service-name as guardian of JavaJavanese wayang tradition (secondary)
• ꦏꦾꦲꦶꦭꦸꦫꦃꦱꦼꦩꦂ Javanese · Kyai Lurah Semar · honorificThe Venerable Chief SemarJavanese wayang tradition; honorific of Semar (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: Club-Footed Clown-ServantDivine clown-guardian and foster-father of the panakawan; Gareng and Petruk already record Semar as parent, so given as ancestor-of to preserve their tiers.Mangkunegara VII, On the Wayang Kulit (Purwa) and Its Symbolic and Mystical Elements (1957); the panakawan with Semar as father of Gareng, Petruk and Bagong (secondary)
• child of: Sang Hyang TunggalThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• sibling: Batara Guru (Javanese)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• sibling: Sang Hyang AntagaBatara Guru, Javanese portrayal and names (encyclopedia)

Sources

• Semar is the most sacred figure of the Javanese (and Sundanese) wayang, the guardian spirit (danyang) of Java and the hermaphroditic earthly form of the god Sang Hyang Ismaya, elder brother of Batara Guru; chief of the panakawan clowns.: Geertz, Clifford (1960). The Religion of Java. Glencoe: Free Press. (secondary); Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (1965). Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese. Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Monograph. (secondary)