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Statue of goddess Dewi Sri

13 Jan 2020 1 1 1125
In the middle of the park a statue of the holy goddess Dewi Sri standing where visitors passing over the paddy fields. Dewi Sri is always depicted as a youthful, beautiful, slim yet curvaceous woman, with stylised facial features idiosyncratic to the respective locale, essentially a woman at the height of her femininity and fertility. In Javanese iconography, usually Dewi Sri is depicted wearing green, white or golden yellow clothes with regal jewelry attire, similar to those of Hindu goddesses, and holding rice plant with full rice grains in one of her hands as her attribute (Balinese lakçana). The goddess is believed to have dominion over the underworld and the moon.