![]() Next to the inscription are reliefs of a kris (sword) blade, an eight-pointed sun and a crescent moon to complete the narration of the sculpted, decorated lingga. The 1.8 metre lingga of Candi Sukuh has four such balls and also has an inscription (representing the vein of the phallus) that reads: ‘Consecration of the Holy Gangga sudhi in … the sign of masculinity is the essence of the world’. These are representative of a custom of the time, that Majapahit sculptors would have marble or gold balls implanted under the tip of the penis. The lingga has the feature that all of the phalluses on the temple have balls ligatured just below the tip of the phallus. The lingga should have fallen off from the roof of the pyramid which had a square altar to hold the sculpted, inscribed lingga. Heading back to the front of the pyramid, a pilgrim worshipping at the temple stands between two of the turtles in the spot where the famous lingga was discovered by Sir Stamford Raffles and is now in the National Museum in Jakarta. evidence from archaeological metal artificats, identification of neolithic-bronze age sites of metalwork spreading - along the Tin Road - from Haifa (presence of two tin ingots in a shipwreck, Nahal mishmar metal castings of 4th millennium BCE) through Bharatam to Hanoi, Vietnam. spread of Munda-Austro-asiatic languages 2. Is it possible that the 15th century sculptural metaphors (Meluhha hieroglyphs read rebus) were memories remembered and recollected from, say, 3rd millennium BCE? How does a researcher penetrate through the mists of time, to validate the time-space continuum spread over 4 millennia and across Indo-Eurasia? I suggest that the clues are provided by two remarkable correlated maps of cognate languages and metalwork: 1. Candi Sukuh, Candi Cetho sculptures are hieroglyphic narratives of metalwork and an Iron Age continuum of Meluhha Neolithic and Bronze Age hierioglyphs of Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization and Indus Script Corpora framed on Meluhha language of Indian sprachbund. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |