pyramid mountain meadow site cianjur

Gunung Padang, located in Cianjur, West Java Province, the famous existence. This is because it is a mountain supposedly the great pyramids, or can be also called punden terraces. Vast complex of buildings of this desert mountain site is 900 m2, this means the pyramid or punden terraces of Mount Padang is the largest in Southeast Asia.

Pyramid Mountain Padang

Not easy to reach location of Mount Padang. It took four hours of Salebu village, past the pine forest along the creek Cikahuripan. Then go back to the forests, to travel on the narrow road, through the bush. To arrive at a spring.
According to Ali, Gunung Padang megalithic site is not a pyramid made ​​with several rooms in it, but punden terraces. "So the results of the stones only, no hallway underneath," said archaeologist from the University of Indonesia.

Punden terraces generally have multilevel terraces before reaching the top of the building. During this time, or since it was discovered in 1914, said Ali, known punden terrace staircase stretching from north to south. "There is suspicion, there is also a terrace on the left and right or east and west of the mountain," he said.
According Suganda, caretaker of the site, there is a folklore that developed in villages around the site. That said, at the time of the kingdom Padjadjaran Naganingrum, the first wife of King Padjajaran King Kian Santang, during pregnancy ask awoken to the east of the royal palace Padjajaran.  Surrounding community believes, a neat pile of stone which is said to be prepared to make the palace. However, due to a previously unknown young male sex at birth discarded and replaced with a puppy, King Kian Santang angry and eastern palace construction was canceled.
The function of the site is estimated Gunungpadang place of worship for the people who settled there in about 2000 years BC The results Rolan Mauludy and Hokky Situngkir suggest a possible involvement of the music of some of the existing stone megaliths. Gunungpadang addition, there are some other site that is a legacy Cianjur megalithic period.    


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