No Willem, the idea of the possibility of an even number of luk is not necessarily European, I have encountered people in Jawa who will also count an even number of luk, but just because somebody is Javanese, or Indonesian, doesn't mean they know much about keris, and even some people who could be considered to be keris literate could have a different opinion to the one I have put forward in respect of even and uneven luk. The only problem with the concept of an even number of luk is that it is logically insupportable, but then logic has never stood in the way of anything to do with keris.
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