Pawukon. Prose treatise on divination, inconnection with the Javanese wuku calendar of 30 x 7 days, and otherchronological systems (weeks of 210 days). Medicines for children are alsomentioned. The idiom is pre-Islamic Javanese; the style is succinct andpragmatic, using many abbreviations for ...
Drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Also includes descriptions of lucky and unlucky comb...