From ancient records, the Sumerians are known to have had a sacred land in the East ( Eden in the East ) called “Dilmun” (Telmun or Tilmun), a place where the sun rose, and a place where their hero, Ziusudra, was said to live eternally.
In the Eridu Genesis (the Sumerian creation myth), the holy land far to the east is called "Mount Dilmun" .
The land of Dilmun was also the actual land with whom the Sumerians traded throughout their history. In the inscription of king Ur-Nanshe of Lagash (c. 2300 BC), which is considered to be one of the earliest inscriptions that mentions Dilmun, for example, there is the sentence ""Dilmun's ships brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands." The information from this inscription itself states that 'Dilmun' is not a mythical land but actually existed.
So far, archaeologists have identified Dilmun with the island of Bahrain, I have discussed the archaeologist's data regarding this in sufficient detail in the previous article " Dilmun: The Holy Land of the Sumerians, and its Relations with the Archipelago " so, in this section I will focus more on discussing at which point in the Archipelago is a very likely prime candidate for identification as 'Dilmun' the holy land of the Sumerians.
This is as Samuel Noah Kramer revealed in his book In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography , that “whatever its western boundaries, Dilmun extended further east and included parts of Iran, Pakistan, and India…”
Identify MUNTIL (referring to the name of the Muntilan area and the name of Mount Muntil near Borobudur) as an anagram of TILMUN or DILMUN
Near the Borobudur temple area there is the toponym 'Muntilan', which could be derived from the basic form 'Muntil' with the addition of the suffix -an. We can see that 'Muntil' is an anagram of 'Tilmun' (another form for Dilmun).
If we dig deeper, the word 'muntil', is phonetically synonymous with words like 'punti', 'nipple' and 'nipple'. As nouns, these three words have very similar appearances. The word 'punti' (a term for banana in traditional language) for example, has a tip very similar to a nipple. And what is more interesting, the top of the Borobudur temple which is near Muntilan actually shows a shape like a nipple. (see image below).
This fact can lead us to the hypothesis that the shape of the Borobudur temple building may indeed adopt the shape of a nipple and which is correlated with the name of the Muntilan area which is near the Borbudur temple complex.
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| The Muntilan area is near the Borobudur Temple area |
We can also assume that the name 'Muntilan' comes from a combination of the words 'MUNTI or PUNTI' with the word 'LAN' (in English 'land' which means land or country, and in Indonesian we find its form in the word 'land' which means also means land or area – so in the course of time the word 'lan' underwent a change in form, namely by getting the addition of a phonetic h).
Based on this assumption, does the name 'Muntilan' contain the meaning "land/land of punti" or "land/land of puting"? and why does the Borbudur temple adopt the shape of a nipple?
Before answering this question, I would like to first take you back to pay attention to the mention of "Mount Tilmun (Dilmun)" in the Sumerian story of Eridu Genesis. We can assume that the term 'Mount Tilmun' means: 'mountain or nipple hill'. Basically this meaning is fully presented in the Borbudur temple.
AND WHAT'S MORE INTERESTING, ABOUT 7 KILOMETERS FROM THE BOROBUDUR TEMPLE AREA IS MOUNTAIN MUNTIL LOCATED AROUND THE MENOREH MOUNTAINS.
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| Mount Muntil around the Menoreh mountains, is about 7 km from the Borobudur Temple area. |
The Borobudur Temple building adopts the shape of a nipple
Borobudur Temple is basically a natural hill covered in rock structures (see image below).
So, if we remove the layered rock structure and only leave the largest stupa at the top, the shape will be easier for us to recognize, resembling the shape of milk and its nipples (see image below).
At this point, the question shifts from " why did the Borbudur temple adopt the shape of a nipple?" became : why did the Sailendra dynasty emphasize "this hill area" to image the object "nipple" by giving a large stupa on the top of the hill as an analogy of a nipple?
Intuitively, I understand that the meaning of this is to suggest that the hill on which the Borobudur temple was built is sensitive land and has a strong vibration or spiritual spectrum, just like the nipples are a part of the human body where there are many very sensitive nerves.
Then, are there other considerations so that I am confident enough to say that the hills of the Borobudur temple are a sensitive or sacred area? Answer: Yes. I found something that suggests this in the sacred text of Zoroastrianism, namely the ' Vendidad of Avesta '.