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To understand how this tolerance works, Anderson delves into the Javanese cosmology depicted in the wayang . He notes that the wayang is governed by clear dualities. There is a fundamental separation between left and right, old and young, the Kurawa (often seen as antagonists) and the Pendawa (the heroes). However, these are not absolute binaries of good vs. evil. Instead, they represent a harmonious tension, a "complementary opposition". The wayang world operates on the principle that day has meaning only because of night, that youth is defined by the existence of age. This worldview is —it makes peace with contradictions that monotheistic cosmologies often cannot.

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