Strange Mendak on Yogyakarta Keris

[milandro]

I am sure that, based on the majority rule, the latter mendak is more culturally appropriate... BUT the first selut may have been coming down to us, through time, since it was dressed for the first time, possibly unaltered, and YET we would be changing it to fit criteria that may or may nor have been shared by the first person dressing that kris.

Sometimes I feel that people who came after the events or the artefacts tend to be way more orthodox than the people who were there at the time that things happened or were made.