Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research - 421 - 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)

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This paper examines how women are constructed through myths and legends, focusing on the “Trilogy of the Golden Blood” and the dragon-blooded woman linked to Jambi royal legend imagery. Using a comparative descriptive method grounded in Roland Barthes’s mythological approach, the study analyzes recurring roles assigned to women in the mythical legendary site: objects of sexuality and reproduction, offerings or mortars, and subordinate figures. Prior observations highlight women’s position as standardized by tradition and social power, shaping paradoxical admiration and degradation.

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Introduction

Myth and women in human civilization

Women as objects in patriarchal traditions

Comparative analysis of the Trilogy of the Golden Blood

Barthes’s mythological approach

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 421 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019) Women and the Myths Behind the Legend Site on the Trilogy of the Golden Blood Resti Nurfaidah Balai Bahasa Jawa Barat Email: [sineneng1973@gmail.com](sineneng1973@gmail.com) Abstract: Humans are mythcreators or mythmakers. That is because of human awareness of the things that are unknown or considered to have extraordinary powers. Among the myths that exist in human life, tends to be associated with the role of women. Most are related to the role of women as objects of certain myths in certain traditions, such as: female circumcision, the concept of female sexuality in patriarchal culture, or their positions in certain fields of life. It can be seen on The Trilogy of the Golden Blood by Meliana K. Tansri which elevates the role of the dragon-blooded woman who is associated with the myth of a royal legend in the Jambi region. Analysis of such role between women and myths uses a comparative descriptive method, by Roland Barthes's mythological approach. The hypothesis of the first observation describes women, in the mythical legendary site in the trilogy, tends to be objects of sexuality and reproduction, mortars or offerings, and being of a subordinate. Keywords: myth, woman, dragon, offering Introduction Armstrong (2005) said that humans are known as creators of myth (p. 1) . Basically, It was humans belief that there were following poins: 1) humans realized that life is not just reality, but there were some things that were far beyond; 2) being so close to nature, especially in past generations, they realized that there was a substance as the creator of nature--.that unknown or unreachable beyond of everyday life (p. 1—4) . For example, in the case of death, in certain ethnicities, the corpses was buried with all of their provisions and favorite objects. The family believed that the corpse would be in a long period of waiting before the D-day. Therefore, the dead didn’t suffer from starving along the period. Armstrong (2005) stressed that myth in current life had so close relation with things not true or never happened (p. 7) . She said that human adults had tendencies in enjoying different possibilities play—simply like a children, they went on creating imaginary worlds, entertained hypothesizes, contemplate its effect upon our lives, or achieved new insight into the disturbing puzzle of world (p. 9) . Then, she also said that myths were needed to create human spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable people to experience a transcendent value that challenges oursolipsistic selfishness (p. 143) . As had been mentioned on the above title that this paper are going to explore such myths which was connected to women. Women couldn’t be separated from certained myths where the surroundings insisted them to be perfect creatures. As the surrounding or the power had their own criteria towards women’s life, they then strickly standardized those deeply as if it was legal rules. Hafizoh said that, for centuries, human civilization had made a picture about women with an ambiguous and paradoxical perspective (p. ix) . She also said that women were both adored and looked down on. He was considered a body which was beautiful like a flower when it blooms, but then was dumped just as he wilted. According to her, for men, a woman's body is synonymous with power charm and pleasure, but at the same time he is exploited for the sake of self-desire and profit (p. ix) . According to Nurhayati (2012), talking about women's always Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license-[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 261)[ 261](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 261) Advances in Social Science, E

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What mythological framework is used to analyze the role of women?

The analysis uses a comparative descriptive method with Roland Barthes’s mythological approach.

Which roles of women are highlighted in the trilogy’s mythical legendary setting?

Women are characterized as objects of sexuality and reproduction, offerings or mortars, and subordinate figures.

Why are myths considered closely related to human life in the paper?

Myths are presented as linked to beliefs beyond everyday reality, shaping spiritual attitudes and challenging selfishness through transcendent values.

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