Long before she haunted Balinese nightmares, Queen Mahendradatta ruled the cremation grounds of Gianyar. As an imperial weapon of Java's 10th century dynasty, her legend was forged in cemetery rituals where the boundary between seductive divinity and black magic dissolved. She forged dynastic power through blood and marriage, bent kings to their knees and left two kingdoms shattered in her wake. She was a brilliant, imperious titan, yet her greatest conquest was defying morta