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 S^i ANCIENT RELIGION OF THE of the followers of Sivva, unconnected with the rf - formation of Buddha. The Bramins of Bali, who are of that worship, informed me that their ances- tors arrived first on Java, before the conversion of the inhabitants of that island to Mahomedanism, on which event they fled to their present country. The ruins of Katto and Suku may have been structures of a party of these persons. Here the worship of the Linga and Yoni, in the most dis- gusting forms presents itself for the first time, and the emblems of destruction are represented with- out disguise or reserve, while not a figure of Budd- ha is to be seen throughout, and, indeed, not a ves- tige of that more benignant religion. At the more splendid ruins, — the superiority of the work- manship, — the comparative beauty of the design, — the propriety of the ornaments, — the genuine Hin- duism of these, — and the presence of Sanskrit in- scriptions, entitle us to conclude that they are the work of foreign artists, or at least were entirely completed under their direction. A very different conclusion is to be drawn from the ruins of mount Lawu. Native scenery and costume are predomi- nant, — the work is coarsely executed, — and the de- sign incongruous, from which the legitimate in- ference is, that the architects were natives of the country, — or at least, that the foreigners who super- intended had little influence, — or were few in num- ter, — or as unskilful as those they pretended to di-