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THE
BULL RACES AT NEGARA
Time is a universal commodity
Throughout the world people chase the fleeting, feet of time.
The charlady checks the clock for knock-off time.
The chairman's wife glances at her diamond studded watch, to make sure
the chauffeur gets her to the Opera on time.
Business moguls set their faith in Greenwich Mean Time.
Bucolic farmers go beserk at the mention of enforced Summer Time.
And then, of course, there is that oft-quoted, unfathomable mystery -
Bali Time.
Like distances in Bali - time also is elastic.
"How far is it to the temple" you ask.
"Oh, quite close," a smiling Balinese will assure you. "Just
100-yards down the road."
Likely as not you
will walk a full mile before you reach that temple.
"What time does the Legong dance begin tonight" you ask.
If you are told "About nine o'clock, Bali time," then you know
you can safely arrive around ten o'clock and still see the start of the
performance.
Let me tell you about the Bull Races at Negara and you'll get the idea:
In the Tjampuhan dining room, lunch was almost over. The bar boys had
already cleared away the rystaffle dishes and placed bowls of fresh mangosteens
on the tables.
Abruptly the after-lunch lethargy was broken as Geoffrey, one Of our more
exotic guests, came scampering down the steps, flung into the diningroom
posed himself dramatically against a table and announced breathlessly
to the room at large:
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine.
No contact is sought with the pirata, the dead who have not yet been cremated.
Oil the contrary they are dangerous, Offerings must however be made for the
redemption of their souls.
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