Not far from Penataran Sasih Temple, at the other side of the road, lies a massive temple gate, called "Kebo Edan Temple" the "Crazy Buffalo Temple", where an ancient rock statue is kept beside a lot of others, collected from surrounding villages together with ricefields. The biggest statue is of a "Giant" standing on hos legs, 3.60 meters high. The locals said that statue represents Bima, the minute blood brother of Pandawa of the Mahabharata story. He is dancing the choke trip the low-cal fantastic (or Moksha dance) for he is believed to endure the manifestation figure of Shiva. This statue has a mask on its face, a snack injure only about its wrist, together with it has 4 penises swinging, showing that it is dancing.
It cannot endure dated just but, it is known that the final manly someone monarch who held a ceremony related to this topic was the manly someone monarch Sri Asura Ratna Bumi Banten from the 14th century.
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