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| | Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water as the bringer of rain. | | | Chinese or Korean Imperial dragons have five toes on each foot; Indonesian dragons have four and Japanese dragons have three. | | | The dragon is one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac which is used to designate years in the Chinese calendar. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon
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| | University of California, Santa Cruz /All Locations |
| | Makasar (Indonesian People) -- Folklore : Gibson, Thomas,; | | | Makasar (Indonesian People) -- Science : Gibson, Thomas,; | | | Makasar (Indonesian People) -- Kings And Rulers : Gibson, Thomas,; |
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http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu:2082/search/d?Makarushka,IrenaS.M.(IrenaSophi...
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| | The Sindhi Internet Resource |
| | my work on Music (Chandiramanis Music of India Series), Classic literature,(Panchatantra), Indian Folklore(Tales of Hitopadesha) and Dance.(7 major classical Dances of India) Produced by the world famous Dr. Kanak Rele of the Nalanda Dance Music Centre, Mumbai. | | | Contact her and get 5OO or more copies of Tales of Hitopadesha printed in Indonesian and present them to top Indonesian officials and friends. | | | He is the first Sindhi to have translated another ancient classic Hitopadesha written in Sanskrit in |
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http://www.sindhi-net.com/articles/detail.asp?AID={8C16D0D7-9153-49A4-8133-D3FC8C4D52A7}
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| | Observations - Chapter Two |
| | Many authorities of Indonesian theatre advance the theory that the wayang is a wholly Indonesian creation, and "only became Hinduized in the course of its history." But the similarities to Indian shadow theatre are too great to ignore, so the theory that India passed on their shadow play traditions to Indonesia cannot be ruled out. | | | It has been remarked by many scholars and observers of Indian folklore that these picture shows greatly resemble the shadow shows of the same country: "In evolutionary terms, a shadow play figure is essentially a cutout from a narrative picture-scroll" (Mair). | | | In 1224, during the reign of King Suryawisesa of Jenggala in East Java, wayang beber was expanded and a gamelin orchestra in the slendro scale accompanied performances. |
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http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/definitions/historical/chapter2.html
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| | Indonesia :The World's largest Archipelago at a glance |
| | The Mahakam River is the main route of access into this vast land of mystery and folklore. | | | The Indonesian language is a variant of Malay, which, in this nation of hundreds of language, has long served as the lingua franca of trade. | | | geographically the land mass known as New Guinea, the western half being the Indonesian province of the eastern most island in the archipelago. |
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http://www.nelltours.com/indo.htm
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| | JesusChristIndia.com - 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Information and Resources |
| | Island folklore recounted an earthquake and tsunami in 1907 and the islanders fled to inland hills after the initial shaking — before the tsunami struck. | | | In India, 10,136 people, according to official estimates, were killed and hundreds of thousands were rendered homeless when a tsunami triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra hit the southern peninsular coast on 26 December 2004. | | | Malé, the capital island of Maldives was severely hit.Despite a lag of up to several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunamis, nearly all of the victims were taken completely by surprise. |
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http://www.jesuschristindia.com/Indian_tsunami_info.html
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| | Javanese music on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Art and politics: from Javanese court dance to Indonesian art. | | | Publication: Asian Folklore Studies; Author: Brakel, Clara ; Source: MAGAZINES | | | Sandhang-pangan for the goddess: offerings to Sang Hyan Bathari Durga and Nyai Lara Kidul. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/J/Javanese.asp
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| | Madison Independent Media Center: newswire/21140 |
| | "One of the few populations that evacuated before the tsunami hit was that of the small Indonesian island of Simeulue, very close to the epicenter. | | | Initial reports state the residents were warned by island folklore recounting a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 1907 and fled en masse to inland hills after the initial shaking and before the tsunami struck." | | | Her parents warned others on the beach and so this was one of the few areas where no one was reported killed. |
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http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21140/index.php
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| | Gulf Coast BigFoot Research Organization's Message Board |
| | It is based on the 2004 Australian and Indonesian discovery viewed in terms of Loren Coleman's cryptozoology research on recent evidence, such as sightings and folklore, of Asia's unknown hominoids. | | | Many new species, long thought extinct forms, and new subspecies of birds, turned up in 2004, including a shark, a tiger, a peccary, and rodents, demonstrating, once again, there are more new animals out there to be found. | | | These animals do not thus do not belong in cryptozoology, and the mysterious Chupacabras remain phantoms, at best, yet again, for another year. |
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http://www.network54.com/Forum/viewall?forumid=23217&it=11
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| | Merapi roars, compulsory evacuation ordered - Wikinews |
| | According to the local folklore the volcano's eruption is the result of spirits being angered by not receiving sufficient offerings or by a disrespectful attitude among the people in slopes. | | | Indonesian authorities have ordered the compulsory evacuation of thousands of residents living on the slopes of the volcano Mount Merapi in Central Java. | | | The alert level has been raised to the highest level, warning of an imminent eruption of the volcano that has been rumbling for weeks and spewing lava and black ash. |
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Merapi_roars,_compulsory_evacuation_ordered
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| | Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot |
| | These vessels saw Active Service during the Indonesian Confrontation in the 1960's. | | | The incident detailed below became part of pussers folklore and has been retold many times over the past thirty years - here is the real version as told by Les Figg who was serving in HMAS HAWK at the time. | | | The RAN possessed 6 Ton Class Minesweepers of which HMAS HAWK was one. |
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http://www.gunplot.net/dits/hmashawk.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Guardian daily comment Humans: a short history |
| | One of the fascinating things about this discovery is that stories of a race of tiny people living in the forests still survive in local folklore. | | | The discoveries were made in the remote Indonesian island of Flores, where this sub-species of humans probably evolved. | | | He is posing with a giant rat that he's just killed, and looks pretty pleased with himself - tragically unaware that lots of other much bigger people are about to arrive and start laughing at him. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1338666,00.html
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| | Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2004 by Loren Coleman |
| | It is based on the 2004 Australian and Indonesian discovery viewed in terms of Loren Coleman's cryptozoology research on recent evidence, such as sightings and folklore, of Asia's unknown hominoids. | | | Christened with the new name, Homo floresiensis, the type specimen is a 30 year old female, with the subfossilized remains of six other individuals also being found in the same cave. | | | Local natives on Flores have one hundred year old legends of a small hairy people, the Ebu Gogo, and clues from these tales will be employed to find new caves to explore for evidence of their former little habitants. |
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http://www.lorencoleman.com/top_cryptozoology_2004.html
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| | Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is located on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor, and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands. | | | The naming is attributed to a prince named Sang Nila Utama, who according to folklore, saw a lion as the first living creature on the island and decided to name it Singapura as a result. | | | Singapore, formally the Republic of Singapore (Malay: Republik Singapura; Chinese: 新加坡共和国, Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Gònghéguó; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு, Ciŋkappūr Kudiyarasu), is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
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| | He was given cultural awards by the regional government of Gianyar, the Balinese provincial government, and by the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education. | | | His works are inspired by episodes from Balinese mythology and folklore, and they often embody eroticism and humour. | | | He is a temple priest and this has greatly influenced his idyllic paintings of Balinese village life. |
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http://www.balix.com/multimedia/photo/photo.html
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| | Java (island) - definition of Java (island) in Encyclopedia |
| | Today Pramoedya Ananta Toer the most famous Indonesian author has written many stories based on his own experiences of having grown up in Java, and takes many elements from Javanese folklore and historical legends. | | | These include Ken Arok and Ken Dedes, the story of the orphan who usurped his king and married the queen of the ancient Javanese kingdom, and translations of Ramayana and Mahabarata. | | | Java was the site of many influential kingdoms in the Southeast Asian region, and as a result many literary works have been written by Javanese authors. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Java_(island)
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| | Faculty of Asian Studies |
| | His main research interest is the acquisition of linguistic politeness by second language learners, and his publications include the articles 'Requests by Australian learners of Indonesian' (Journal of Pragmatics 2003, Vol 35) and 'Modifying requests in a second language' (International Review of Applied Linguistics 2001, Vol 39). | | | Amongst his other research interests are medieval and modern Hinduism; North Indian folklore; and, the history of Mauritius and Fiji. | | | During 1998 he was a visiting scholar at the National Language Research Institute (Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyujo) Tokyo, Japan, undertaking research on the development and loss of kakari-musubi in central and peripheral Japanese dialects. |
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http://asia.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/staff/staff.html
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| | La Llorona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to folklore, La Llorona (IPA: /la joˈɾona/ - "lah yoh-ROH-nah", Spanish for "the crying woman"), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children, whose appearances are sometimes held to presage death. | | | Similar stories of this creature can also be found in some Indonesian legends. | | | La Llorona is also sometimes identified with La Malinche, the Native American woman who served as Cortés' interpreter and who some say betrayed Mexico to the Spanish conquistadors. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona
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| | Bruce Carleton's Jaded Gates Kamadhatu page |
| | Ki Jaka is one of many characters in Indonesian folklore who come across bathing maidens | | | A kuntilanak is a beautiful but dangerous female spirit. |
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http://www.brucecarleton.com/pages/artpages/kd.html
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| | Pontianak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A pontianak or kuntilanak (as known in Indonesia, sometimes shortened to just kunti) is a type of vampire in Malay folklore. | | | The Indonesian twist on this is plunging the nail into the apex of the head of the kuntilanak. | | | The pontianak is usually a woman who died during childbirth and becomes undead, seeking revenge and terrorizing villages. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontianak
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| | SOAS: Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and the Islands at SOAS |
| | The research interests of the Departments members include: classical Malay literature; modern literature in Malay, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese; Islam in South East Asia; language pedagogy; phonetics; womens studies; oral literature and folklore; and translation. | | | SOAS: Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and the Islands at SOAS | | | The research and teaching in this Department draw heavily upon the resources of the Librarys extensive South East Asia collection, and are closely connected with the work of many of the Schools other Departments. |
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| | Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot |
| | The incident detailed below became part of pussers folklore and has been retold many times over the past thirty years - here is the real version as told by Les Figg who was serving in HMAS HAWK at the time. | | | These vessels saw Active Service during the Indonesian Confrontation in the 1960's. | | | The RAN possessed 6 Ton Class Minesweepers of which HMAS HAWK was one. |
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http://www.gunplot.net/dits/hmashawk.html
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| | Speakers (World History and Culture-General) |
| | These introductory remarks on non-Western systems of art and folk music include such topics as Islamic music from North Africa and the Middle East, the structure of the North Indian raga, the Indonesian gamelan and traditional music from Korea. | | | One of the unique contributions of folklore is its power to hold within it the nuances of a given culture and the global appeal of themes that have crossed the borders of many nations. | | | From history to music, from the arts to the sciences, the unique ways in which a given people view their world are discovered in the stories that are central to their lives and culture. |
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http://nebraskahumanities.org/speakersIA.html
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| | The Bogeyman - www.ezboard.com |
| | What I find fascinating about bogeymen and monsters under beds (or in closets) is that they are part of the folklore of children--kids seem to glean knowledge of them from informal (non-parental) sources. | | | The word bogey isn't associated with pirates until about 1857 and then it is in reference to Malay pirates not Indonesian Bugis so the pirate explanation is probably probably a false folk-etymology (which doesn't make it any less inventive and interesting). | | | Though I have heard of the cultural bogeyman (the wendigo), the religious bogeyman (the Devil) and the personal bogeyman. |
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http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/boardarchives/2005/jan2005/bogeyman1.html
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