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Jataka stories are found carved as narrative bas-reliefs on ancient Javanese candis, such as the Mendut, Borobudur and Sajiwan temples; telling animal fables about the virtues of Buddha, who performed exceptional acts of kindness in his animal incarnations before being reborn as a Boddhisattva and the future Buddha.
Sitor Situmorang Sastrawan 45, Penyair Danau Toba, autobiography (1981) Toba na Sae (1993), local history; Guru Somalaing dan Modigliani Utusan Raja Rom, (1993), local history. Betlehem (1954) by M. Nijhoff, translation; Rindu Kelana (The Need to Wander), (2004) short documentary by Ed Pesta Sirait – The Lontar Foundation [12]
The Toba eruption (the Toba event) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 73,700±300 years ago. [15] It was the last in a series of at least four caldera-forming eruptions at this location, with the earlier known caldera having formed around 1.2 million years ago. [16]
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A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values , and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude .
Batak Toba believe souls become an ancestral spirit and the children of the deceased perform funerary rites. If a person died childless a si gale-gale is created as a substitute. Complicated sigale gale could be life sized and featured actuation using wet moss or sponges that could be squeezed to make the dolls appear to cry.
1,295 m (4,249 ft) Lake Sidihoni is a lake located within Samosir Island which itself is an island within Lake Toba , in North Sumatra , Indonesia and is therefore notable for being a "lake on an island in a lake on an island".
The same name also appears with the first character transcribed as 托 or 㩉 [10] and with the second character transcribed as 拔; [citation needed] it has also been anglicized as T'o-pa [5] and as Toba. [2] [3] The name is also attested as Tufa (禿髮, Tūfà or Tūfǎ), [11] whose Middle Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as ...