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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1127959, member: 2844"]The script is from much further east than the Middle East. And the central figure (Buddha? Monk?) in the pattern on the left has 4 arms.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like something magical or magico-Shamanic, connected with healing or protection.</p><p>Some Indonesian Dukuns (Shamans) use similar cloths, although Indonesian magico-Shamanic texts are usually written in Jawi, a modified Arabic script, which this is not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1127959, member: 2844"]The script is from much further east than the Middle East. And the central figure (Buddha? Monk?) in the pattern on the left has 4 arms. It looks like something magical or magico-Shamanic, connected with healing or protection. Some Indonesian Dukuns (Shamans) use similar cloths, although Indonesian magico-Shamanic texts are usually written in Jawi, a modified Arabic script, which this is not.[/QUOTE]
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