Malay Medicine 
The Mountains of Caucasus are usually called by Malays as Bukit Qaf, or the Mountains of Qaf. These mountains are not frequently referred to in Malay charms, e.g. in invocations addressed to Rice spirit.
The Mountains of Qaf are to the Malays a great range which serves as a wall to the earth, and keep off both excessive winds and beasts of prey. This wall however, is being bored through by people called
Yajuj and Majuj, when they succeed in their tasks the end of all things will come.
Besides these mountains which surround the earth there is a great central mountains called Mahameru (Saguntang Maha Biru, or merely Saguntang-guntang). In many Malay stories this hill Mahameru is identified with Saguntang-guntang on the borders of Palembang Sumatra.
Malay Medicine
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Mountains of Qaf
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