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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 376365, member: 2844&quot;]I didn&#039;t want to go into that before, because it would result in one of my endless stories, but here it goes.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Those elongated triangles are called tumpal. If you look closely at Javanese influenced art, you see them everywhere. </p><p>Lombok was one of the colonies of the medieval East Javanese Majapahit empire, just like neighbouring Bali, that is how tumpal imagery came to Lombok. The Majapahit empire covered most of Southeast Asia.</p><p>Tumpals symbolize the heaven and earth connection, and used to be reserved for royalty and divinity. Those are essentially the same, because royalty was considered divine. Kings were often seen as incarnations of Shiva or Vishnu. </p><p>Indonesian royalty is still regarded as having a special connection with the spiritual world, and have spiritual and ethical responsibilities because of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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