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Hanuman battles his half-mermaid son
In The Ramayana, page 5.12
Hanuman faces his mermaid son in battle, as seen on a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. On the right side, Hanuman, in his wide-legged stance, holds a sword in his left hand while he points his right index finger at his enemy. A fish-tailed creature,...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman crushes Ravana's soul container
In The Ramayana, page 6.8
Balancing on his right leg, Hanuman grips the wooden cylinder with both hands and his left foot. Hanuman's face looks to the right side of the frame with his mouth wide open in triumph. Hanuman is dressed in gold pants and jewelry with a red waistband, whose...
By Lorraine Aragon.
The monkey god Hanuman
In The Ramayana, page 3.1
This image of the monkey god Hanuman on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows him perched on one knee wearing golden royal Thai clothes. Hanuman's mouth is open and his larger-than-human teeth are visible. Hanuman has made himself gigantic and...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman fights a sea dragon
In The Ramayana, page 4.11
Hanuman fights a sea dragon taking a stone from the bridge, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Hanuman stands with one foot in the dragon's mouth as he pulls his upper jaw open to release the stone that the dragon has taken from Rama's bridge...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman attacks Ravana's palace
In The Ramayana, page 3.7
In this detail image from an Emerald Buddha Temple mural, Hanuman in royal garb clambers over the head of an elephant outside a white wall of Ravana's palace. The bodies of two fallen demon guards are seen at each side of the frame. After locating Sita and...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman meets Rama
In The Ramayana, page 3.2
The monkey god Hanuman climbing in a tree recognizes Rama and Laksman resting below, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. In this scene, Hanuman looks just like a small white monkey, wearing a loincloth and no crown. Rama and Laksman wear golden...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Rama in the demon world
In The Ramayana, page 6.1
Hanuman rescues and carries the unconscious Rama. This Emerald Buddha Temple mural image shows two sequential events painted within the same rocky outdoor landscape. At left, Hanuman finds Rama lying unconscious within a black wire cage. Hanuman balances on...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman charms Ravana's mermaid daughter
In The Ramayana, page 4.12
A red-toned modern Balinese painting depicts Hanuman courting Ravana's mermaid daughter. Swooping above moonlit waves and an open-mouthed fish in the sea, Hanuman carries the beautiful mermaid in his outstretched arms. Hanuman's and the mermaid's faces are...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman tries to stop the sun
In The Ramayana, page 5.3
A two-faced and eight-armed Hanuman is flying out of the clouds to grab the outer rings of a gold, red, and green sun. The sun is shown here as a nested set of colored concentric circles. A mountain and forest scene is visible below.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Ravana sets Hanuman on fire
In The Ramayana, page 3.10
In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Ravana dressed in royal Siamese apparel descends the stairs of his palace thrusting a fiery torch towards Hanuman. Hanuman sits on the tile floor at left, confined and bound with oil-soaked cotton rope. Another...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman finds Ravana's soul container
In The Ramayana, page 6.6
Hanuman flies back to Rama carrying Ravana's soul container, as depicted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Moving horizontally through the air to the left, a grinning Hanuman dressed in Siamese royal clothes holds the small wooden cylinder with conical...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman and the demon king
In The Ramayana, page 3.9
Hanuman and Ravana puppets face each other in battle at a July 1986 performance in Yogyakarta. The white Hanuman puppet on the left wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik sarong while the Ravana puppet, with a moustache and red skin, is dressed in red. The faces...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman learns Ravana's secret
In The Ramayana, page 6.4
Within an elevated pavillion, adorned with gold leaf, Hanuman kneels at the feet of a crowned demon. The demon gestures forward with his extended left arm, telling Hanuman how to proceed. Readers of the Harry Potter books will recognize a parallel plot device...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman recognizes his son
In The Ramayana, page 5.13
Hanuman learns from a star that he is fighting his own son, as seen on a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Hanuman, in his eight-armed form, looks up from battling a fish-tailed enemy to see a small gold twinkling star above him in the dark sky. As...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman tricks a demon guard
In The Ramayana, page 3.4
On the Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a detail shows the monkey god Hanuman entering a demon guardian's mouth as he attempts to cross the sea to Lanka. The demon is ornamented on the mural with gold leaf paint.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman searches the underworld for Ravana's soul
In The Ramayana, page 6.5
A mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts Hanuman in two places as he travels through the underworld landscape in pursuit of Ravana's hidden soul container. Huge pink flowering lotus plants and boulders dominate the scene. Hanuman is visible standing on...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman searches for herbal medicines
In The Ramayana, page 5.4
A giant white Hanuman scales a mountain about double his height to find medicinal herbs for Laksman. Hanuman's arms are stretched upward and he wears golden clothes and ornaments. Hanuman's smaller monkey troops follow behind him, running on the ground and...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Quenching the demon's fire
In The Ramayana, page 3.13
In this mural scene painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a wise hermit tells Hanuman how to quench the fire on his tail. Hanuman kneels on a red tiled floor holding up his tail in distress. A bearded hermit listens, dressed in golden clothes as he sits in...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Sita agrees to return
In The Ramayana, page 7.13
Rama and Hanuman go into the forest to meet Sita, as shown at a wood puppet performance in Yogyakarta during July 1986. The white Hanuman puppet on the right wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik sarong while the Rama and Sita puppets are dressed in similar...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman is rewarded
In The Ramayana, page 6.15
Late at night, Rama sits on an outdoor palace platform with his brother Laksman perching nearby to look over the scene. Hanuman kneels below Rama with clasped hands. The allied monkey kings sit at Hanuman's side inside a walled palace fence. The clothes and...
By Lorraine Aragon.