This study discusses how a phenomenon can affect civilization and the outlook on society. Prediction is so important to uncover major events that have occurred at a certain period or period. Forecast defined as attempts to acquire knowledge through occult ways or using certain rituals.   Said forecaster derived from Arabic which means a science Raml for interpreting, judging, see and predict the fate of someone in the future. Activities divination fortune-telling in the novel Sabdo Palon Pudarnya Surya Majapahit by Dhamar Shashangka refers to signs/phenomena that come from nature itself, namely with the emergence of a red lunar eclipse (blood moon) lunar eclipse, Chandra Kartika, earthquake, and head of the earth at Majapahit sky. The conclusions from this study indicate that predictions are so important to answer someone's curiosity and curiosity about things that are beyond the limits of ordinary human abilities and to reveal it all also requires help from someone who has extraordinary abilities and knowledge of the prophecy itself. In this novel, the translator is focused on the figure of Sabdo Palon

Kajian ini membicarakan tentang politik kekuasaan di Majapahit yang terjadi pada tahun 1373-1380 Saka atau sekitar tahun 1451-1457 Masehi. Dalam hal ini, politik kekuasaan merujuk pada penyalahgunaan wewenang dan konspirasi politik yang dilakukan oleh Girisawardhana (raja Majapahit yang baru) untuk meperluas wilayah kekuasaannya. Politik kekuasaan dalam Novel Sabdo Palon Pudarnya Surya Majapahit Karya Damar Shashangka juga dapat ditemukan melalui memanasnya situasi politik di Majapahit pasca Girisawardhana membuat dan menerbitkan aturan baru yang menimbulkan reaksi/penentangan dari berbagai pihak, salah satunya adalah Bhre Kertabhumi (Raja Kerajaan Keling). Pada penelitian ini, peneliti menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif untuk menafsirkan politik kekuasaan Girisawardhana dalam Novel Sabdo Palon Pudarnya Surya Majapahit. Adapun teori yang digunakan mengacu pada pandangan Max Weber tentang kekuasaan. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini mengindikasikan bahwa politik kekuasaan mempengaruhi suatu masa atau peradaban, karena kekuasaan (penguasa) akan berupaya menguasai dan menakhlukkan kelompok atau golongan yang bertentangan dengan kebijakan dan ideologi sang penguasa. Namun, dalam politik kekuasaan terdapat sebuah wacana ataupun konspirasi dengan tujuan tertentu untuk mengusai suatu kaum dan juga bisa membungkam kelompok atau golongan tertentu yang dianggap separatis/kaum pemberontak. Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa semakin besar pengaruh politik kekuasaan, maka akan semakin besar pula keinginan untuk menundukkan dan mempengaruhi orang lain.

This article describes magical contents in kaba Puti Nilam Cayo. Intrinsic aspects were analized with structural approach. After that, the results were analized with sociological approach. After all, this object describes magical contents as rutinity and as symbols. This kaba shows Minangkabaunesse believe in supernatural activity in their universe.

Politics can hide part of the history of civilization, but literature is unable to silence it. Literature can be a fertile field that fosters history that is drowned out by a tyranny. The power of oral literature in local communities helped confirm the 'diamond light' of the history of a community's civilization. The sensitivity of the author is needed to record and publish the history that is folded by the tyranny. The next generation of Indonesian people needs to know the folded history. The role of literature becomes important in the inheritance of knowledge about the history of Indonesia's civilization past. One of the unpublished histories of Indonesian civilization is related to the kingdom of Pagaruyung in Minangkabau. The novel of Negeri Perempuan written by Wisran Hadi has offered a way to understand the Minangkabau history of the past on the map of civilization in the archipelago. The problem is, how do we understand literary works so that the historical fold of the Minangkabau ethnic civilization becomes reasonable and should be understood by all generations in West Sumatra, and in Indonesia in general, even in the world. Literary studies that have a perspective on perspective will be able to provide answers. This article discusses the Minangkabau historical fold in the novel of Negeri Perempuan.