In his book, Dreams from My Father, Obama unveiled the fact that his step-father Lolo Soetoro introduced him to Lord Hanuman when he lived in Indonesia. He wrote, "There standing astride the road was a towering giant at least ten stories tall wth the body of a man and a face of an ape. That's Hanuman, Lolo said as we circled the statue, the monkey-god. I turned around in my seat, mesmerized by the solitary figure, so dark against the sun, poised to leap into the sky as puny traffic swirled around his feet."He's a great warrior," Lolo said firmly,"strong as a hundred men. when he fights the demons, he's never defeated."
