Mount Merapi of ancestors who died as righteous people. The spirits of these ancestors are said to live in the palace as royal servants ("abdi dalem"), occasionally visiting their descendants in dreams to give prophecies or warnings. " To keep the volcano quiet and to appease the spirits of the mountain, the Javanese regularly bring offerings on the anniversary of the sultan of Yogyakarta's coronation. For Yogyakarta Sultanate, Merapi holds significant cosmological symbolism, because it is forming a sacred north-south axis line between Merapi peak and Southern Ocean (Indian Ocean). The sacred axis is signified by Merapi peak in the north, the
2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi suffering from serious depression and anxiety, while one man had committed suicide, reportedly due to stress. On Thursday, 18 November the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs issued a second update to their 11 November travel advisory bulletin acknowledging the announcement by Indonesian authorities on 15 November scaling back the 20 kilometre exclusion zone in some of the regions around Mount Merapi. The exclusion zone had been reduced to in the District (Kabupaten) of Magelang and to in the Districts of Klaten and Boyolali. The exclusion zone in the District of Sleman, towards the city of Yogyakarta, remained at .