Pendekar Batari Mahadewi: The Journey to Find Your Self
Episode 1 Tiny Baby In The Rain
The storm just passed. Lately heavy rain often falls accompanied by strong winds that do not hesitate to knock down large trees and blow the roofs of fragile homes.
Some people began to look out of the house, looking at some fallen trees and garbage scattered by the rainstorm that had just ended.
They had not noticed the presence of a crying baby figure in a basket under a banyan tree in the yard of an old widow named Nyi Turmeric. Maybe someone put it there. Maybe since the storm hasn't stopped. No one knew after Nyi Turmeric was knocked out of the house because he heard the sound of a baby crying.
The baby in the basket was soaked and slightly muddy. Nyi Turmeric was very shocked and without thinking long, he hurriedly brought the baby into the house to be bathed and wrapped in a clean cloth so that his body warmed.
‘Oh, poor beautiful baby girl, who ditched you’. Nyi Turmeric said inwardly. But Nyi Turmeric was secretly astonished and inexhaustible, how could this baby survive the storm and how could this baby remain radiant fresh and emit a golden light?
This was Nyi Turmeric's first experience caring for a baby because for a lifetime, she had not had children since she married until her husband died.
Actually the age of Nyi Turmeric is not too old, about 45 years old. But his difficult life made him look old and fragile.
Since long ago, she and her late husband always hoped to have children, but the Gods have not granted his wishes. Since her husband died, Nyi Turmeric lived alone and she also never thought of remarrying.
‘Why today feels to be a day all coincident’, Inner Nyi Turmeric. Last night he dreamed of having a child, and today he found a beautiful little baby girl.
What Nyi Turmeric had in mind was that the baby was just an ordinary baby girl; a tiny baby that was thrown away by her parents. He didn't know the baby was a special baby.
The problem was, Nyi Turmeric was not prepared for the sudden arrival of the baby. He doesn't know if he should be happy or confused. All he had in mind at that time was to find milk and ask the neighbors for help. There was no way he could have kept the baby secret.
“Little girl, I name you Batari Mahadewi” whispered Nyi Turmeric. Then the baby started crying.
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Nyi Turmeric carried Batari Mahadewi to the house of his neighbor who also happened to have a baby.
“Nyi Santan..Nyi Santan Nyi Turmeric called out to his neighbor who happened to have just given birth a few days ago. Ki Janur, Nyi Santan's husband opened the door of his house. “What is Nyi...astaga, whose baby is this Nyi Turmeric?” Ki Janur was astonished because he knew that it was impossible for Nyi Turmeric to have a baby.
“Long story Ki Janur, but can I ask Nyi Santan to breastfeed this baby? It seems like he's starving. I found it under the banyan tree earlier after rain.”
“Alright Nyi, let's please come in. My wife happened to be accompanying our son in the room.” They both brought the infant Batari Mahadevi inside. Nyi Santan who had heard the conversation between Ki Janur and Nyi Turmeric immediately welcomed the baby because he was very curious.
“Oh, what a beautiful baby girl.” Said Nyi Santan who then rushed to breastfeed Batari Mahadewi.
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The giant became very powerful because he was undergoing a tapa for 1000 years. Soon, he will be finished in his 1000 years of ascetics.
In his hermitage, he just wants to be the most powerful giant that no one, not even the gods, can kill. Of course, the gods of heaven knew Kalapati's intentions and desires for 1000 years. But to break it is not easy. The gods abstain from attacking anyone who is ascetic, but can only tempt him to fail in asceticism.
Kalapati is a giant who is firm in heart, he was not tempted even while undergoing his asceticism. If he succeeds in achieving his goal, of course the human world and the heavenly world will lose its balance.
As long as the giant king lived his hermitage, the gods also prepared to create his antidote, a magic weapon that would later live like a human. The weapon is neither a god, nor a human, nor a demon, nor a giant; it is just a living weapon like and in the form of a human being.
Of course to create divine weapons was not an easy job for the gods, it took 100 divine gods who worked together to create them, including the king God, and other divine gods.
However, each of the gods had to give up half of his god mustika in order to create energy on the weapon. For the gods who have given half their will, their power will also be halved. It took 100 years to recover his strength as it was.
The problem is, the weapons of the gods were finished forged to coincide with the completion of the tapa the giant. The weapon would also have its full power when all the energy seals in its body were exposed. No one could unseal it except himself, no matter how many tens of years it would take for the seal to open. Thus, the imminent calamity was inevitable.
The main purpose of the ascetic giant is to master the heaven and eliminate the gods who live there. Soon he will be able to achieve his dream, avenge him as a giant nation that has always been shunned and removed, even killed by the gods.
In the world that has been created by the ruler of the universe, the world of gods or heaven is the highest world. Under him, there was a central world inhabited by humans, giants, animals and plants. While the underworld is inhabited by demons and demon inhabitants of hell.
During this time, the god world was the strongest world that could determine the fate of the world below. The gods did not destroy the giants for no reason. Nevertheless, the gods could not completely exterminate all the giants. When that happens, the whole world will lose its balance, and the impact is the destruction of the underworld, the middle and the divine world itself.
This is also true for all the world, giants cannot destroy all humans or in other words, no one party should be destroyed, even though the animals are as small as ants, even if they are, because all these elements are the pillars that maintain the balance and continuity of world life.
Then what if this Kalapati exterminated the entire god to satisfy his grudge? Of course the three worlds will be destroyed, including Kalapati itself. This was what the gods feared; kalapati would gain strength and devotion, but not intelligence.
When Kalapati finished completing his tap, immediately the divine heirloom was also completed forged. The heirloom had a continuously changing shape with a luster of golden light that signified as the peak of energy.
The weapon cannot be used by anyone. The weapon must live and kill Kalapati of his own will. So in order to disguise its existence, the gods changed it in the form of a human baby.
The weapon will grow and live like a human. If the gods turned him into an animal, then the weapon would only grow into a powerful beast with no intelligence. And if the weapon is changed in the form of a giant, then later he will become a giant who will actually become the enemy of the gods.
Thus, along with the ascension of Kalapati to khayangan, one of the gods brings the baby-shaped heirloom down to the human world and will grow into a human until he reaches his perfection that can destroy the Kalapati.
While Nyi Turmeric found the baby, the Kalapati had ravaged the entire heaven, killed most of the major gods, and imprisoned the god king because like the giant, the god king could not be killed by anyone.
The rest, the surviving gods fled to all corners of the world. Perform their duties secretly.