The Bajang Child Swinging the Moon

Dewi Sokawati cannot imagine where that hope will take her child. She does not want to clarify what has not been clear. She thinks now is the time that she must wholly explain the rest of her life story. Therefore, to her son, the bajang demon, she tells the story of her life after she was asked by her husband Begawan Swandagni to throw her son in the Jatisrana forest.

The morning after the night where she had to separate from her son at the edge of the Jatisrana forest was very gloomy. Arriving at the hermitage, Dewi Sokawati was silent. It seemed there was nothing left to say, only sadness. And her sadness continued to creep over her, like tarulata plants coiling around tree trunks. The sadness was huge. However, she also had no intention of getting rid of it. In her shadow, her sadness would always be there, like the sadness of her abandoned child.