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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4514386, member: 2844&quot;]Couldn&#039;t go into this yesterday, but it is unlikely that there were meteorite keris blades during the Majapahit era. The keris type at the start of Majapahit was the rather squat keris buda, which had no pamor (damascene pattern). Towards the end of Majapahit the more slender and often wavy keris came into use, often with pamor, but probably no specific use of meteorite.</p><p>With the Prambanan meteorite, which fell ca 1740, meteorite became a coveted material for high kerises.</p><p>Meteorite kerises have only a small amount of meteorite in the pamor, as can be seen in this detail of one of my Madurese keris Naga, below. The meteorite presence is seen in the shiny silvery shading in the pamor on the right, and in the sparkling line in the base:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]396880[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While all mountains are considered sacred, the Krakatoa or Krakatau was of no importance in Majapahit culture.</p><p>Java is a long stretch of land, almost a straight line from east to west. Majapahit is in East Java, Krakatau lies in the Sunda Strait between West Java and Sumatra.</p><p>The most important sacred mountain of East Java is the majestic Mt Semeru, the highest mountain of Java and an active volcano. This is the sacred mountain of Majapahit, not far away Krakatau.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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