Yes! What is it, what is it, a bet that one can hold breath longer than the other, or idle exploration. OR HEY YOU KNOW WHAT. The story goes, don't wear green to Parangtritis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parangtritis) or else Nyai Roro Kidul will getcha. She'll drag you out to sea and into her lair. I think because only Nyai Roro Kidul is allowed to wear green over there? I guess she really digs the color. So you know who wears green? Indonesian Susan, that's who, probably on purpose to show she isn't afraid of silly superstitions. Anyway, she looks good in green. Hmm, or maybe it's Lucy, and she's just absent-minded and full of whimsy. I DUNNO. Anyway.
The thing is, there's signs all over the beach saying you're not supposed to swim in the water not really, because the waves are too strong. Well, the kid goes swimming wearing green. Nyi Roro Kidul is like A-HA and is like *SNAGS* and *ATTEMPTS TO INDOCTRINATE*. "We have to rescue our sister!" And thus the adventure begins?
I'm checking out Nyai Roro Kidul's Wikipage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyai_Loro_Kidul) for the first time and it's fascinating. She was once human apparently, a princess, but she got hit by some black magic (or... contracted leprosy) and threw herself into the ocean to end her suffering. There, the spirits and creatures and demons made her queen and goddess. So so so so, A FEW THOUGHTS:
-- Maybe it's that the salt stings her eyes and blurs her vision, but the shapes around her seem neither fish nor human. They are here to take her to the next life, perhaps.
-- Something (some things?) speaks to her in a voice that sounds like a thousand whispers, clear in her ears and felt in her heart. We have waited for you, it says. We have waited for you for a long time.
-- The curse could not be lifted, and the disease destroyed her body. Of course, a thousand whispers say. Destroy one form to become another. Of course, of course.
-- Her lungs burn as they fill with water, and around her the shapes cry for her, reach for her, and sing.
-- They have been waiting for her. Her mouth forms the shapes of Yes, and she closes her eyes.
'Cos Jadis was an usurper to the throne, but Nyai Roro Kidul was always meant to be there. HMM.
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The thing is, there's signs all over the beach saying you're not supposed to swim in the water not really, because the waves are too strong. Well, the kid goes swimming wearing green. Nyi Roro Kidul is like A-HA and is like *SNAGS* and *ATTEMPTS TO INDOCTRINATE*. "We have to rescue our sister!" And thus the adventure begins?
I'm checking out Nyai Roro Kidul's Wikipage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyai_Loro_Kidul) for the first time and it's fascinating. She was once human apparently, a princess, but she got hit by some black magic (or... contracted leprosy) and threw herself into the ocean to end her suffering. There, the spirits and creatures and demons made her queen and goddess. So so so so, A FEW THOUGHTS:
-- Maybe it's that the salt stings her eyes and blurs her vision, but the shapes around her seem neither fish nor human. They are here to take her to the next life, perhaps.
-- Something (some things?) speaks to her in a voice that sounds like a thousand whispers, clear in her ears and felt in her heart. We have waited for you, it says. We have waited for you for a long time.
-- The curse could not be lifted, and the disease destroyed her body. Of course, a thousand whispers say. Destroy one form to become another. Of course, of course.
-- Her lungs burn as they fill with water, and around her the shapes cry for her, reach for her, and sing.
-- They have been waiting for her. Her mouth forms the shapes of Yes, and she closes her eyes.
'Cos Jadis was an usurper to the throne, but Nyai Roro Kidul was always meant to be there. HMM.