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Antaboga
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Antaboga (; ; ; ), or colloquially also known as the Javan Dragon Snake deity is a serpent deity in Javanism and Sundanism (later also adopted in Balinese Hinduism).

Key facts

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A 19th century Balinese-style drawing by I Ketut Gedé, depicting a Balinese man named Juarsa worshipping Antaboga.
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King of Worldly Serpents
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Javan-Bali scripts
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Javanism, Sundanism, Balinese Hinduism
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Indonesian
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275px
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Antaboga

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  • Nomenclature
  • Mythology
  • Depictions
  • Notes

Antaboga (; ; ; ), or colloquially also known as the Javan Dragon Snake deity is a serpent deity in Javanism and Sundanism (later also adopted in Balinese Hinduism).

==Nomenclature== is a Javanese-origin name, derived or inherited from in Old Javanese meaning . According to the Balinese literatures, the term might possibly rooted from two Sanskrit words, namely (अनन्त, ) and (भोग, ). In Hindu traditions, he is identified with Sheshanaga.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antaboga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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