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character: gifted with inspired wisdom, and remaining young for a long time. Emblem Half-moon: character: open-hearted. Tree Gëndayakan: character: being a shelter for People in distress. The misfortune of the wuku Sinta: in middle-life unhappy in marriage, or both partners equally unwise. Arrange a sacral community meal for them, consisting of soft cooked rice, one fitra bowl; meat taken from one buffalo, prepared in four ways : as pindav, (a kind of soup), gecok, becek and garat} asem. The Arabic prayer to be said is the slamet prayer. The slazvat fee (for the saying of the prayer) should be 25 kètèri, (cash). The prophetic aphorism (concerning the end of life) is: the death of an able man, which means: meeting disaster hy some carelessness. The Kala (evil demon) °f the wuku is in the North-East. For seven ^ays one should not move in the direction of the Kala.

h0.023, Plate no 11, Day of the Horse, LOr 2230, Pawukon from West-Java, collection Rijksinstelling”, Leiden, see Synopsis 41.940. The original picture (polychrome) is 26 x 12,5 c m. Eighteenth or early nineteenth century, ^est-Javanese script.

The text has: Punika kadis watëk iq taqgal. Yèn taiqgal: 1: dina Kuda arané. Duk kala Allah nita- hakën nabi Adam sasi Sura taqgal sëpisan. Watëké: W013 dagatj layar abëcik. Yèn ana laré lahir vp, dina iku: abëcik. Yèn waq lara: gëlis waras. Yèn ana pawarta ala: linok, yèn ana warta bëcik: tëmën. Yèn ana larané, tutulaké sëga biru binuntël iq jarit putih, binuwaq maqidul, sarta gawéya gambar rupa jaran kaq kinarya galëpuq, binuwaq maqidul. Anuli waras. T ranslation: This is the Islamic tradition concerning the characters of the days of the month. The first day of the month is called the Horse day. At the time God created Adam it was Sura (Islamic month Muharram) the first. The character is: for trading and sailing: good. A child born that day is fortunate. Falling ill, one recovers soon. Bad news proves to be false, good news is true. For illness the magic antidote is: blue cooked rice in a white cotton package, to be thrown away towards the South; make also a fig urine of a horse from rice-flour, to be thrown away towards the South. One recovers at once.