A burung serindit is a parakeet, a love bird, but a serindai is an evil spirit.
Serindi I know not.
However, birds in general and cockatoos in particular are regarded as messengers between the living and the dead, a link to the unseen world, and thus to the ancestors.
Hilt figures can sometimes be regarded as ancestral figures, and the burial position in some SE Asian cultures is echoed in the position of some hilt figures.
I think I might be able to see a cockatoo in this hilt form, and if so then I believe I am seeing a reference to an ancestor.
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