Cirebon hilt?

tuancd · 15th May 2005, 04:51 PM

As I said it's also because it is sculptured on a handle. If the posture couls be on a straight line then it would look like your illustration.
Any ways it's not obvious like some others detail or styles.

BluErf · 16th May 2005, 01:51 PM

Hmmm... You are probably right. Here's a couple more images I got from the net. One was from a previous post here. Aggressive posturing.

tuancd · 17th May 2005, 04:10 PM

Yes definitely. You can see that the posture looks like the Alidha/pratyalidha standing position... But if you look them from the back they look seated and I have not been able to find a seated posture that look like that. You know that all the posture have their meaning (like almost everything in the keris). I find strange that such an important part of the kriss would be sculptured always the same way without a good reason.
I've been through an interesting study about durga
http://www.asianart.com/articles/durga/
and as you'll see in the postures the right foot is almost always upper than the left. Is this the model?

16th May 2005, 01:51 PM	#2
BluErf Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,180	Hmmm... You are probably right. Here's a couple more images I got from the net. One was from a previous post here. Aggressive posturing. Attached Images

15th May 2005, 04:51 PM	#1
tuancd Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Paris - Bruxelles Posts: 32	As I said it's also because it is sculptured on a handle. If the posture couls be on a straight line then it would look like your illustration. Any ways it's not obvious like some others detail or styles.

17th May 2005, 04:10 PM	#3
tuancd Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Paris - Bruxelles Posts: 32	Yes definitely. You can see that the posture looks like the Alidha/pratyalidha standing position... But if you look them from the back they look seated and I have not been able to find a seated posture that look like that. You know that all the posture have their meaning (like almost everything in the keris). I find strange that such an important part of the kriss would be sculptured always the same way without a good reason. I've been through an interesting study about durga http://www.asianart.com/articles/durga/ and as you'll see in the postures the right foot is almost always upper than the left. Is this the model?