Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Kocet-Kocetan hilt form

Newsteel · 3rd February 2008, 12:31 AM

Good and interesting discussion.
Unlike other 'balinese characters' - raksasa, god and godess, here we have an insect. What exactly is the philosophy or meaning having it as a hilt? What does it symbolise? Any myth behind this???

3rd February 2008, 12:31 AM	#19
Newsteel Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 132	Good and interesting discussion. Unlike other 'balinese characters' - raksasa, god and godess, here we have an insect. What exactly is the philosophy or meaning having it as a hilt? What does it symbolise? Any myth behind this???