A popular legend, which was variations thorughout java, ascribes the creation of the slender Maiden to a daughter of King Boko, who command an unwanted suitor to build one thousand temples in one night. Assited by spirits, the would-be husband had almost accomplished this impossible task when Roro Jonggrang ordered the village women to begin pounding rice, an activity generally performed at dawn.
The spirits, believing dawn was approaching, fled and teh angry suitor cursed Roro Jonggrang who turned to and was placed in the temple as the statue of Durga, Shiva's formidable consort.
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