Mount Penanggungan, is a sleeping volcano or are in an inactive state. Mountain with an elevation of 1653 M above sea level is located in the district are on the Mojokerto and mountain clusters with Arjuno and Welirang.
The mountain is known to have a high historical value because in the whole slope encountered many ancient relics, both temples, hermitage, or petirtaan of Hindu-Buddhist period in East Java. In those days the mountain is known as Mount Pawitra, which has a meaning as fog, because it has a pointy peaks and misty. There are at least 81 temples that once stood on the slopes of Indemnity. From the number of years the temple was found in some of the buildings, it is known that these buildings built between the X century AD (Jalatundo Baths, 977 F) until the sixteenth century AD.
All historic relics contained in the Indemnity discovered in the 1920's, when there is a great forest fire on the slopes of the mountain. From it all, these objects come from the heyday of the Majapahit archaeological sites are found along and thousands of other artifacts are scattered in the valleys and slopes west side and north Penanggungan be revealed.
Locals believe that the mountain is a mountain Indemnity that is widely used as a place of meditation or penance, which is also inhabited by the gods who are angry. Evidence of this belief can be seen from 81 archaeological discovered on the mountain Indemnity and strengthen the public perception that mountain Penanggunggan Java is a holy mountain, and living gods. No less than 50 punden terraces with three altar offerings on its terrace spread over the valley and the slopes Indemnity.
In the Hindu belief known to the Buddhist concept of Macrocosm or arrangement of the universe, that the universe is shaped like a flat disc linkarang, which Mahameru or Sumeru mountain at its center. Mount Penanggungan, the Java community trust, is a manifestation of the macrocosm conception because the mountain is believed to be one of the top Mahameru displaced by the ruler of the gods.
As a religious center in the development of Hinduism and Buddhism, the sage plays an important role in ritual ceremonies. The sage is a person who has resigned from the busy world and chose to live in seclusion in places away from the crowds, usually in the mountains still quiet and beautiful. Mount Pawitra serve as a center of religious activity is none other than due to the assumption that the peak Pawitra Mahameru, the center of the universe who moved to Java. With live and worship in sacred buildings spread over the slopes, then the receipt will be easier to relate to his god in the world Swarloka, the abode of the gods and Girinatha (Shiva).
source : www.eastjava.com
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