VietNamNet Bridge - A bronze-cast ornament sculptured with the face of a death God, believed to belong to the Cham culture, was discovered last week in central Quang Nam province. 

The triangle-shaped Kala face ornament, which stands 10 centimetre high, was found by a local in Que Ninh commune in Que Son district.

Javanese and Balinese mythology, the traditional mythologies of Indonesian islands of Java and Bali before the adoption of Hinduism, hold it that Kala is the ancient God of time.

He is also the death-God, whose appearance to a person was the sign of that person's impending death.

He gave wealth to young men on certain conditions but at the end of the appointed time reappeared to claim his due.

In Javanese sculpture, the so-called 'Kala-heads' are the heads of demonic monsters associated with death and retribution.

The Hindu Cham civilisation dates back to the 7th century and reached its pinnacle in the 9th century in central Vietnam.

(Source: VNA)