(2015年4月10日)马来群岛一座皇室的声望在很大程度上取决于杰出祖先的后裔。在最深处的层次上,马来文本中的起源神话引起了地球与天空之间团结的信念,象征着从天堂降下来的王子与从地球或水中的公主之间的婚姻,他们从弥撒出来泡沫或一团竹子(参见Ras 1970:81-99)。
With the coming of Islam, into this chain of descent were introduced powerful figures from the Islamic pantheon, pre-eminently the great hero Iskandar Zulkarnain (Alexander the Great), as well as the first man, Adam, and the Raja of ‘Rum’, as the Ottoman lands were known in the east.
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