thumb|right|A representation of a Bhoma head guarding the top of the portal to a Balinese temple in Singapadu.
thumb|right|A representation of a Bhoma head guarding the top of the portal to a Balinese temple in Singapadu.
In Balinese mythology Bhoma is a primordial earth deity associated with fertility, vegetation, and the liminal space between wilderness and human settlement. The image of Bhoma is a carved or formed as grotesque face in Balinese architecture which decorates certain parts of the Balinese temple complex to ward off evil spirits.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).