A Balinese Keris for Analysis

[Anthony G.]

It is a beautiful silver hilt.

Btw, is kocetan considers a form of grasshopper, locust as I have impression the head does looks like a grasshopper. And Kusia considers as a beetle with the legs form?

[Jean]

Just adding to the confusion

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by Jean

Just adding to the confusion

The relatively rare hilt form, known as a kocet-kocetan, is thought to have been reserved exclusively for priests of the Brahmin caste. It is a representation of Batara Karpa, a Balinese mythological deity in the form of a beetle, born of a union of Resi Kasyapa, the primordial father of the gods and Dewi Winata who also gave birth to the god Garuda. Interestingly this mythology is exclusively Balinese and is not known in Indian Hindu myth.

[A. G. Maisey]

A little more:-

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...9&page=1&pp=30

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

A little more:-

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...9&page=1&pp=30

Thank you