Thursday, January 21, 2010
Mountain Padang site in Kampung Padang and Kampung Gunung Panggulan, Village Campaka Karyamukti District, Cianjur, is shaped megalithic sites berundak punden the largest in Southeast Asia. This recall archeological area surrounding the building with 900 m2 area's own site approximately 3 ha.
The existence of this site first appeared in the report Rapporten van de oudheid-kundigen Dienst (ROD), in 1914, later reported in 1949 NJ Krom. In 1979 the authorities involved in this promotion and research of cultural reserves bend overseers of local culture and Ditlinbinjarah followed by Pulit Arkenas conduct a review to the location of the site. Since that time research efforts of Padang Mountain site began in terms of both archaeological, historical, geological and others.
Punden berundak building form reflects the tradition of megalithic (mega means large and lithos meaning stone) as often found in several areas in West Java. Gunung Padang site located 50 kilometers from Cianjur said to be the largest megalithic site in Southeast Asia. In the local community, the site believed to be evidence of efforts to build a palace of King Siliwangi overnight.
Aided by his troops, he tried to collect the blocks of stone found only in the area. However, the night seemed to pass faster. At dawn tinge the eastern horizon was thwart his efforts, then that area and then he left. The stones he left scattered on the hill, now called the Mount of Padang. The plain meaning of light.
The building consists of five terraces with different sizes. The stones have not experienced the touch of human hands in a sense, has not worked or shaped by human hands.
Stone blocks whose numbers are more spread almost over the top of Mount Padang. The locals called a stone that lies on the terraces with the names of Islamic smell. For example there are called table Giling Pangancingan Kiai, Chair Grandmother Bonang, Jojodog or Grandmother Swasana seat, back of stone Suhaedin Sheikh alias Sheikh Abdul Rusman, Marzuki Sheikh Grandmother stairs, and Sheikh Abdul Fukor stone.
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