7:14 PM | Author: History of Java
Hearing his name, that imagine the intellectual figures of the kingdom of his mind far into the future. What can we can from the remnants of glory?

At least there are two special points at the Kediri regency attached to Sri Aji Joyoboyo gait. First, taken cared of in the village of King Win, Allocation District, also known as the Loka muksa, second, Sendang Kamandanu Tirta, a petilasan located only 500 meters from the Loka muksa. Both have historical and spiritual value of the outside biasa.Rata Full
In the court of King Petilasan Sri Aji Joyoboyo example, we always meet the people who had come to contemplate, to pray to the Almighty. Those who come to this place not only from Kediri and its surroundings, but also the Java-Bali, and some even came from abroad such as Malaysia, Singapore, and India.

In petilasan located 10 kilometers from the town of Kediri, we can see the shrine muksa Loka, a building consisting of phallus and yoni combined with a bead (round stone in the center hole that resembles the eye). Overall, the building was surrounded by reinforced concrete fence that has three doors. It is said that these doors represent three levels of our lives, including birth, mature, and die.

While phallus and yoni, contain elements of understanding that life consists of men and women. Linga and yoni also become a symbol of the container (a) and contents, physical and spiritual, body and soul, which looks and the invisible
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8:34 AM | Author: History of Java

 The cover of the book The History of Java essay Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

Java History (The History of Java) is a book written by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and was published in 1817. In this book, Raffles, who ruled as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in the years 1811-1816 to write about the state of the population on the island of Java, customs, geographical situation, agriculture systems, trading systems, languages and religions in the island of Java on time.  

This book was published in two bundle (Volume I: 479 pages, and Volume II: 291 pages, with many illustrated pages) and reprinted in 1965 by Oxford University Press in London.

In one chapter of this book, Raffles tells about traditional ceremonies conducted in welcoming the birth of a baby, in marriage, and the usual funeral rites performed since ancient times up to at that time. This book also contains about salvation and celebration ceremony featuring traditional dances and puppet shows in the 19th century and earlier.
 
This book is a different book with Chronicle books Tanah Jawi strips written by Braja at the time of the Sunan Pakubuwono III reign in Surakarta.
 
source: (trns) http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejarah_Pulau_Jawa
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