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stabbed the blacksmith with it 
before dying Mpu Gandring cursed Ken Arok to be killed by same kris, and his children and grandchildren to also die by rest of the story the working out of this curse

4. from [[underlined]] O'Conner. "Iron Working as a Spiritual Inquiry" [[/underlined]]

p. 178: on Java can have up to 100 layers of different metals; Jasper and Pirngadie say that Balignese and Sulawesi smiths considerably simplified the spreading of pamore layers, implying that the craft had developed on Java and was more complex there in Bali the smith says special mantras before the use of each tool.

p. 180: mountains are regarded (in Indonesia) as the abode of the dead, the powerful ancestors who may be contacted on their slopes;

across Java and Bali and elsewhere in the archipelago, the flanks of great mountains carry terraced sanctuaries often built of rough, unworked stone; there are believed to be constructions that reflect original, pre-Hindu ritual practice, and they are often compared in form and meaning to the marae, the ritual stone terraces of Poynesia; they continue to be venerated even today as in Bali, altho the religious context has a different look from the 14th century literature (kakwin) of Java, Supomo has identified a god named Parawatarja who is known as "Lord of the Mountain"; he says this god, involked in the first stanza of the Arjunawijaya ((Arjunawiwaha?)), is more important than Siva or Buddha characterized as "the life of all the vital spirits of the world"

- Supomo says was a cult of the mountain diety which associated with offerings to gods of Mount Agung on Bali, where Besakih, the most important temple of Bali is located

also associated with Sukuh, the terraced sanctuary of Mount Lawu in central Java

both of these great mountain sanctuaries are linked directly to the world of the iron smith; in O'Connor's view this relationship reveals the connection between metallurgy and the redemption and release of the soul through the mysterie's of the armorer's art

p. 183: on Bali Hooykaas has encountered a myth that the iron smith, Mpu Gamdromg. was granted the power to deliver "his forefather's spirits"

also on Bali, de kat Angelino pointed out that the smiths traced their origin to Mpu Brahma Wisesa, an incarnation of Brahma who lived separated from mankind as a pious hermit in the midst of the silent hills in Java; he had great supernatural might and was able to forge weapons by using his fist as a hammer and his thigh as an anvil, while the fire that he required appeared from the palm of his hand
p. 184: living testimony on Bali where the smiths are the only occupational group that has a shrine on the island's most important state temple, Besakih, 3000 feet up on the southwest slope of sacred Gunung Agung; this great temple complex is a terraced sanctuary whose origin stretches into the prehistory of the island long before Hinduism; from the 1400 it served as a 

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