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VOL. 12, ISSUE 4 (2026)
Hereili and the Makaravedra or Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype in revitalised Kristang culture
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Tuan Raja Naga Ultramar Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang
Abstract
This paper presents the first academic overview of hereili, the Kristang Creole-Indigenous concept describing the intentional and manipulative transmission of psychologically traumatising ancestral memory, and examines its most extreme form: the Dragon Reborn hereili, imposed on the author – the 13th Kabesa or Indigenous Chief of the Kristang community and the primary scholarly authority on Kristang worldwide –through sexual abuse that was intended to destroy or gain control of the author’s own sense of self at a young age. Within Kristang epistemology, a hereili is a psychological constellation of abusive psychoemotional pressure and projection intentionally forced on an individual at a young age to become a samaserang or psychoemotional replica or clone of either another previous deceased individual or a fictional or constructed character. The paper further situates hereili within the framework of the Roda Mundansa (“Wheel of World Movement”), the reconstructed Kristang cosmology mapping five cyclical Ages of humanity and their ecological and psychohistorical turning points (Wong 2023), especially at the end of each Age, where one individual becomes the carrier of a concentrated form of hereili associated with planetary-scale trauma. In Kristang terminology this role is now known as the Makaravedra (“Dragon Reborn” or “Purple Dragon”), an instantiation of a magnakarnansa or magnaarchetype: a planetary-scale psychoemotional role that emerges at critical inflection points in Deep Time, when ecological instability, collective trauma, and civilisational recursion converge to produce structural demand for species-wide homeostasis. Across previous Ages, the Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype appears to have been weaponised and distorted through hereili such that the overwhelming density of accumulated ancestral memory historically pushed its bearer toward collapse, often culminating in suicide, genocide, or civilisational rupture; however, I argue that making the structure of the hereili explicit through scholarship and self-reflexive autoethnography not only redistributes its burden and interrupts the anticipated historical pattern, but thereby also allows for sustained recovery from the trauma of being forced to carry the hereili at all in the first place.
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Pages:74-81
How to cite this article:
Tuan Raja Naga Ultramar Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang "Hereili and the Makaravedra or Dragon Reborn magnaarchetype in revitalised Kristang culture". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 12, Issue 4, 2026, Pages 74-81
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