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6th March 2011, 03:14 PM
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Unusual hilt
A strange old hilt from Java. The animal on the base is a sacred bull (?) with wings. Can any keris forum friends to help me to know what he is?
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8th March 2011, 03:42 AM
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Just a wild guess
the sacred bull, Nandi, is one of the vehicles of Vishnu. Vishnu had a lion avatar, so the lion face could be Vishnu.
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8th March 2011, 05:01 AM
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