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Hi all,
Looking into Ensiklopedi Keris (see picture attached, from pg. 250). For some hilts, the head does look like a horse. The texts explained that it's a horse head. Based on examples posted here, there seems to be those that looks like horse head and some that's clear cut a bug-like head. Could there a hilt transformation, from the bug-like head into into a horse head? Or could it be, the case where later craftsman, carved hilts without knowledge of the symbolism attached? Or is there two hilt forms with different head type, a bug and a horse? Btw, there is a famous keris with a kocet-kocetan hilt, Keris Ki Puspa Wijaya. (see Pusaka Keris, Vol 07-08/2007, pg.61). |
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