Indonesian Mythology
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- ANTABOGA
- BABI NGEPET
- BARONG
- BATARA GURU
- BATARA KALA
- BATARA SAMBU
- DEWI LANJAR
- DEWI SRI
- GARUDA
- HAINUWELE
- HYANG
- JENGLOT
- KUNTILANAK
- LEAK
- NYAI LORO KIDUL
- RANGDA
- RATU ADIL
- SILEWE NAZARATE
- SUANGGI
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Indonesia's many ethnic groups each carry their own myths, deities, and demons. Garuda, Rangda, Nyai Loro Kidul, and spirits like the kuntilanak and leak fill this grid. Older ancestral myths blend with outside influences here, so hunt down each name and creature.
What the words in this puzzle mean
- ANTABOGA
- The world serpent of Javanese myth, said to lie beneath the earth and hold it up.
- BABI NGEPET
- A boar-demon of Javanese folklore, a man who takes pig form to steal wealth.
- BARONG
- The lion-like spirit of Balinese ritual, protector of villages against Rangda.
- BATARA GURU
- The ruling god of the Javanese pantheon, a local form of Shiva.
- BATARA KALA
- God of time and destruction, born of Batara Guru and feared as a devourer.
- BATARA SAMBU
- A son of Batara Guru, associated in Javanese tradition with teaching and the priesthood.
- DEWI LANJAR
- The spirit queen of the north Java sea, honoured by fishermen along that coast.
- DEWI SRI
- The rice goddess, the most widely loved figure in Javanese and Balinese belief.
- GARUDA
- The great eagle who carries Vishnu, and the national emblem of Indonesia.
- HAINUWELE
- A girl of Moluccan myth from whose buried body the first root crops grew.
- HYANG
- A word for a divine or ancestral spirit, older than the Hindu and Muslim layers above it.
- JENGLOT
- A small doll-like figure of modern Javanese folklore, said to be a shrunken being.
- KUNTILANAK
- The ghost of a woman who died in childbirth, one of the most feared spirits in the region.
- LEAK
- A Balinese witch-spirit that flies at night as a head trailing its own organs.
- NYAI LORO KIDUL
- The queen of the southern sea, whose colour green swimmers on that coast avoid wearing.
- RANGDA
- The demon queen of Balinese ritual, met and held off by Barong in the dance.
- RATU ADIL
- The "just king" of Javanese prophecy, a ruler expected to come and set things right.
- SILEWE NAZARATE
- A creator-associated goddess in the traditional religion of Nias island.
- SUANGGI
- An evil spirit or sorcerer of eastern Indonesian belief, blamed for sudden illness.
Indonesian Mythology Word Search Answer Key
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