Moon of Pejeng

[6] It is kept at Pura Penataran Sasih Temple in Pejeng, near Ubud,[3] in the Petauan River valley which, along with the adjacent Pakerisan River valley, forms the heartland of South Bali where complex irrigated rice culture first evolved on the island.

One night, as the chariot was passing over Pejeng, the wheel detached and fell to earth, landing in a tree, where it glowed nearly as brightly as the real moon.

[11] Similar drums - albeit smaller - have been found in Bali, such as that discovered in 1997 in Manikliyu (west side of Bangli Regency), in a unique burial system thus far unknown in Indonesia.

[12] A. Calo suggests that such kettle drums were associated with early rice cults - and cultivation - in Bali: most of them are found near sources of irrigation water (lakes, springs or weirs in rivers); their shape and decoration are reminded in modern representations of female deities associated with rice and irrigation water, the latter originating in a pre-Hindu culture and later integrated into the Hindu-Balinese panel of gods.

Ritual ceremonies honouring these deities are still held to this day at places where irrigation water first enters fields (bedugul) and at crater lakes, the highest sources.