Continued from The less known sections of Ratu Boko palace.
Walking down towards what is said to be the women's section.
The writer wanted to show us some stupa remains.
He said these are leftovers from some incomplete stupas at Borobudur.
You see he claimed a big portion of the Ratu Boko palace has been magically transported to Borobudur and the parts of the stupas where accidently left behind here.
He brought us here to support his claim that this palace was once resided by Ratu Balqis, a person known in the West and mentioned in the Bible as Queen of Sheba.
The official story is the queen had lived in the middle east, somewhere in Yemen, the southern tip of the Arab Peninsular. But the writer disputed that saying Ratu Balqis is from Java.
He said the mysterious figure in Javanese history called Ratu Boko of which this whole palace complex is credited to is none other than Ratu Balqis.
The altars he claimed were the places where she and her people used to worship the sun as mentioned in the holy Quran.
And next to it lies these stones are seats (or was it standing places?) he said were used when her council of nobles and elders meet.
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