Damar Wulan
Monday, September 19, 2022
In Sandhyakala Ning Majapahit, Damar Wulan is troubled as he confronts philosophical questions about the meaning of life, why he must die, and whether so-called good and bad exist.
LEGENDARY characters are never free. They are fashioned and targeted at a particular time, and occasionally turned upside down.
Chronicle writers know that every era is a time of lack. The Damar Wulan legend, so well-known in East and Central Java, grew and flourished in the post-Majapahit period in the 14th century, when – as the chroniclers depict – ‘sirna ilang kertaning bumi’, all peace was gone from the world. There
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