Gods, birds, and trees; Variation in illustrated Javanese pawukon manuscripts

Abstract

Many libraries in the world preserve Javanese pawukon manuscripts containing divinatory calendars based on the Javanese 30 seven-day wuku cycle. Collections are found in the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta, the University of Indonesia in Depok, the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta in Central Java, the Museum Sonobudoyo in Yogyakarta, Leiden University Library in the Netherlands, the British Library in London and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Germany, to name some of them. A number of pawukon manuscripts are illustrated and form the topic of this contribution.