ISBN 978-602-60218-1-6 ANALISIS STRUKTURALISME LEVI-STRAUSS, MITOS, SIMBOL DAN FUNGSI LEGENDA GOA NGERONG DI KECAMATAN RENGEL KABUPATEN TUBAN BAGI MASYARAKAT SEKITARNYA (KAJIAN FOLKLOR) Kiki Astrea Universitas Islam Darul Ulum Lamongan
[email protected] Abstract Oral literature is of folklore, a culture, spread by word of mouth. This study attempts to examine the folklore of Ngerong Cave legend located at Rengel, Tuban. This study will describe structure, myth, symbol, and function in the Ngerong Cave legend in a descriptive qualitative approach. The source of data is the society‘s recording around Ngerong Cave, while the data is the written story based on the recording attained from the society around Ngerong Cave. The data collection is obtained through determining the object and doing a recording. Besides, the data analysis techniques gained by processing, collecting the data based on the result of recording, then making a note and presenting the data. The result shows that an emerged myth is the people should not eat the fish obtained from Ngerong Cave because it is considered as a holy fish, whereas the visitors of the cave believe that when they got a fish from the cave, they would get a fortune. Keywords: Strukturalisme Levi-Strauss. Mitos. Simbol. Fungsi. Legenda. Goa Ngerong. Rengel. Tuban. Kajian Folklor. PENDAHULUAN Masyarakat Indonesia mempunyai beragam kebudayaan yang merupakan warisan leluhur dan dilaksanakan secara turun temurun. Salah satu kebudayaan yang masih dilaksanakan sampai saat ini adalah ―adat- istiadat‖ (Purwadi, 2007:12). Adat-istiadat adalah suatu kebiasaan yang dilaksanakan suatu masyarakat. Kebiasaan ini terjadi karena adanya warisan leluhur yang dilaksanakan secara turun-temurun.