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Scrambling
up the steps back onto the road, I recognised a friend amongst the worshipers.
"What is happening" I asked. Before I could ask
any details, my friend, with a polite "Permisi", hurried off
to rejoin his place in the homeward bound procession. At last I asked a small girl, who stared at me wide-eyed a moment, before answering in a hushed whisper: "The priest will bathe in fire tonight" Then, as though afraid of what she had said, she bounded up some steps, darted through a split gate and out of sight. The Balinese, fanatics for bodily cleanliness, will bath anything not nailed down - fighting cocks, cows, pigs, trucks, grandmothers, and motorbikes - twice daily. But for a priest to bathe in fire I was trying hard to digest this unlikely piece of information when Wyan, one of our bar boys, arrived in full temple gear. No, Wyan assured
me, the priest would not bathe in fire, but the eight boys and eight girls
who I had seen dancing in the temple last night certainly would. In the centre complex, where no tourists were permitted, a pedanda, imposing in his robes, was dispensing mantras and holy water. An hour passed before
the musicians dropped their hammers, the pedanda began donning his everyday
clothes, and the worshippers came flooding out of the temple, laughing
and chattering.
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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. Everything Bali Indonesia |
