Step Pyramid - Indonesia

Indonesia

Next to menhir, stone table, and stone statue; Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia also featured earth and stone step pyramid structure called Punden Berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java. Gunung Padang is the biggest Megalithic Site in Southeast Asia. The construction of stone pyramid is based from the native beliefs that mountain and high places is the abode for the spirit of the ancestors or hyangs.

The step pyramid is the basic design of 18th century Borobudur Buddhist monument in Central Java. However the later temples built in Java were influenced by Indian Hindu architecture, as displayed by the towering spires of Prambanan temple. In the 15th century Java during late Majapahit period saw the revival of Austronesian indigenous elements as displayed by Sukuh temple that somewhat resemble Mesoamerican pyramid.

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