Dewa Anta is the divine serpent of the Sundanese rice-origin myth preserved in the Wawacan Sulanjana, a Sundanese verse text studied since K.A.H. Hidding's 1929 Leiden dissertation. When Batara Guru, lord of the heaven in this tale, commanded the gods to build the pavilion Bale Pancawarna, Anta alone could not work, having neither arms nor legs, and wept three tears that turned into eggs. Startled by a bird of prey while carrying them, he lost two of the eggs, which later accounts connect with the origin of the boar-pests Kalabuat and Budug Basu that afflict the rice crop; the third egg he brooded until it hatched into the girl Nyi Pohaci Sanghyang Asri, from whose grave the first rice would eventually grow. Anta is the Sundanese counterpart of the pan-Indonesian world serpent Antaboga, and through him the rice goddess is bound to the watery underworld that serpents embody in western Javanese cosmology.