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According to Hakimy, nature and its laws are used by

traditional gatherers as a source of inspiration and knowledge,
which are usually used as thoughts to regulate human life. So in

the doctrine conveyed through poetry and literary forms using the

provisions of the properties of nature.
The traditional gatherers, since their ancestors first realized

that this wide open nature must be studied both in form and in
nature. At the beginning of the development of Minangkabau

culture, especially before the entry of Islam, the ancestors of the
Minang people had succeeded in discovering the natural provisions

that existed in the real world (shari'a nature). And from empirical

experience, the Minang people have found natural provisions that
can be used as metaphors for human nature, such as choppy oceans,

chirping magpies, reeds with books, water fertilizing.
The following is a simple example of discovering the

nature of objects that are part of nature.
Red nan made with sago

The red one is sago

Kabuki Samo Mandaki
The hill is the same as climbing

Bulek aia pabuluah deck

Spherical water due to vessels (bamboo)