Difference between Raksasa and Dewa?!

[David]

Originally Posted by erikscollectables

Could you go a bit further into the details of the Raksasa, how to recognise this specific type?

Erik, what do you mean by "this specific type"? As Alan has pointed out, the people he knows in Jawa and Bali are not likely to use the term raksasa. I think that there are probably many hilts that western collectors label as such that perhaps where not intended to represent a raksasa. For instance i often see many of the vegetal figural hilts categorized as such when i am not convinced that they are really meant to be ogres or demons. Sometimes we see obvious wayang figures called raksasa. Often i think our obsession to categorize leads us to sometimes force a square peg into a round hole.