In an uncontrolled fit of temper Giriputri the mountain goddess and wife of Bhatara Siwa, had so mistreated her child Sanghyang Kumara that Siwa banished her to the middle world. There she was to remain, ugly, with large, flaccid breasts and demonic canine teeth, and rule the death temple and the burial and cremation grounds. From this moment on, humanity in the realm of Medan Kumulan was afflicted by pestilence and death.

Much later the god Siwa felt an urge to visit Giriputri, whom he had cursed and who was now known as Bhatari Durga. After transforming himself into the demonic Sang Hyang Kala Rudra, he met Durga at a crossroads, copulated with her and thus begot the three demons, Bhuta Bang (The red Demon), Bhuta Sweta (The White Demon) and Bhuta Ireng (The Black Demon). Together with the spirits of disease Bhuta Brelaga, they now caused terror and disaster throughout the country.

In great concern over the future of humanity, Bhatara Brahma, eldest son of the divine couple Siwa and Giriputri, summoned his two younger brothers Wisnu and Iswara to a conference. After Bhatara Wisnu had thought the problem over carefully, he suggested that all there brother should appear in the middle world as priests to arrange for various necessary measures to be taken against their parents’ demonic emanations.

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