There is something interesting when power begins with a story about words and coconut juice.

We find this in the Javanese tale about the founder of the Mataram kingdom.

One morning, the story goes, a farmer called Ki Ageng Giring shinned a coconut palm tree in his yard to pick a coconut. He wanted to make coconut cream. But at the top of the palm tree he heard a voice: "Whoever drinks the juice of the coconut you now hold in your hands will sire des