GHENTA DRAGON IN THE 14TH CENTURY OF MAJAPAHIT
In Javanese culture, the dragon is also a symbol of fertility/blessing. This can be proven by several artifacts in the shape of a dragon, always intended to ask for blessings or fertility.
In addition, Javanese dragons are usually depicted as protectors or protectors, so they are commonly found in carvings of gates, entrances or staircase steps with the intention of protecting the building they occupy.
Various decorative snake-dragons are found in Hindu-Buddhist antiquities in the East Java region around the 10th to 16th centuries AD, especially in sacred places.
This decoration is in the form of a snake with the physical characteristics of a dragon, some of which have a pair of front legs, and are adorned with jewelry. For example, we can find it on both sides of the stairs of Kidal Temple, near Tumpang, Malang. Sometimes these snakes are "accompanied" by a Garuḍa.
These sacred places, especially temples known as dharma or prāsāda, are temples where Hindu and Buddhist gods are worshiped, as well as to place the "embodiment statue" of the deceased king so that he can immediately "go home" to the place of his patron deity (iṣṭādewata) known as term moksha.
"Placing the snake-dragon decoration as a component of the temple, of course, had an important purpose related to the religious behavior carried out by the people at that time," said Hariani Santiko in a journal entitled Decorative Variety of Dragon Snakes in Sacred Places of the East Java Period
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