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>Hamburg
>Varieties of Javanese Religions, an anthropological account.

These people are mad.
>As they put it, `the Arabic word is Allah', though, of course, this is not what most people understand by `Allah'. The duality of red and white therefore implies a trinity: Adam and Eve and Wisnu. The third part of the trinity, the divine spark, is (some say: results from) the confuence of the four elements, earth, wind, fire, and water, and these elements continually renew and sustain life. The three agents in creation, Adam and Eve and Wisnu, thus each bear four constituents, making twelve, a complex whole like the four-five constellation of the multi-coloured porridge.