The Queen of the Southern Sea

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Illustration of the labuhan procession in a book entitled Mededelingen van wege het nederlandsche zendelinggenootschap, published in 1879.

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SENAPATI entered the ocean. He concentrated his mind, held a moment of silence, and meditated to ask for guidance from the Omniscient. A storm came. The wind raged. Lightning flashed. The sea went turbulent. Nyai Roro Kidul rose from her resting place. In her palace courtyard, a man stood by the sea. She then descended to the edge of the sea and approached Senapati.

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