Dewi Sri (Rice Goddess)
Dewi Sri is the revered Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese Hindu goddess of rice and fertility, still widely worshipped across Indonesia. According to Sundanese myth, she was born from a miraculous egg laid by the naga god Antaboga. She grew into a princess of such beauty that the supreme god Batara Guru became dangerously attracted to her. To prevent scandal in heaven, the gods poisoned her, and her innocent body was buried. From her grave sprouted all the useful plants essential to humanity: from her head grew coconuts, from her eyes grew rice (white from the right, red from the left), from h