Legend of Destroyed Cities: Wisdom and Communication for Natural and Environment

Abstract

            The objective of this article is to present viewpoints of wisdom which explain how the origins of place names can be liked to natural and environment phenomena in the destroyed city. This study selected a variety of local legends which appear to be connected to natural or environmental concepts which provided vital information connected to knowledge thought and feelings of the human inhabitants. The results found that the legends of destroyed cities showed the linkage between legends and city names with the techniques and contents of narratives which were told via legends of places. The explanation of the origins of places showed that local wisdoms were told via narrative having the construction of meanings. Legends were not a melodrama but they were the representative of ways of thinking in locals. In addition, legends of the destroyed city reflected the conflicts between supernatural powers and human-beings. The supernatural powers would inflict punishment when the human-beings misbehaved to vis-à-vis the supernatural and the punishment was theflood.This phenomenon demonstrates the way that humans conceptualized natural disasters as having Supernatural origin.