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A. G. Maisey 28th December 2019 12:20 AM

Yes David, you're right. I can sometimes have problems with the current practice relating to use of punctuation and syntax.

jagabuwana 28th December 2019 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
But what about Brahma, who has red, and Wisnu, who has black? You can often see the colours of the trimurti in the stones/pastes/glass/plastic used in Balinese hilts.

Black is obvious enough in a keris blade, but red? Maybe a little patch of rust, or the red that accumulates under an old warangan job

Ah, so you have reminded me!
He said that Wisnu is the blackened iron on the blade, Siva is the "white" nickel and Brahma is the fire that created it.

Very interesting too about Isvara - thank you.

A. G. Maisey 28th December 2019 10:21 AM

Sounds reasonable.

Brahma is indeed the creator --- but if the fire is Brahma, he is not really a component of the blade.

jagabuwana 29th December 2019 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
Sounds reasonable.

Brahma is indeed the creator --- but if the fire is Brahma, he is not really a component of the blade.

Yeah I think I fed myself a red herring in the process of trying to remember. Jeez, and they say your memory doesn't falter till you're older!

A. G. Maisey 30th December 2019 06:08 AM

Pande Ketut would have spoken to you in BI. What we remember in BI sometimes gets a bit skewed when we later try to put it into English.


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