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Old 6th February 2019, 03:06 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Pusaka
Whilst there is physical colour and texture variation depending on the purity of iron, its working and its finishing process that is not what is meant by the sixteen types of wesi and their associated vowel sounds/colours.

A knowledge of actually what these sixteen types of wesi truly represent, how to use them is the highest secret of the Keris and not something you can expect to be given a satisfactory answer to unless you have been initiated into that.
Belief can be a powerful thing. But what is "actual" and "true" is quite often a subjective reality.
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