Natural Cosmic Esthetic Presentation in a Pwahaci Dance Ritual Performance in Cigugur, Kuningan District, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract

This study is qualitative description of the structure weaving of ritual performance in describing the spiritual awareness of all participants. Especially the community of the Penghat Kepercayaan of Sundanese Wiwitan in Cigugur. It’s aiming to show the teachings of the kindness, the truth and the beauty of the cosmic aesthetic actions of nature in the arts expressed. The research was built on the aesthetic theory of theology, supported by performance and ritual theories. The research method used verbal data and pictorial data, combining complete participant and observer participant. Based on the theory and method performed by this ritual show, it has a diversity of philosophical and symbolic meanings. The character of DewiPwahaci is a picture of the image of the divinity of mankind in Sundanese as a duty and obligation to seek perfection of life. This in also interpreted as the implementation of PikukuhTilu teachings in realizing a harmonious relationship between human and nature, with God, and with each other.