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The boys, waving their long spears, began dancing wildly, backwards and forwards through the coals. The girls, jerking convulsively and still screaming, followed in their wake. Their cotton rope became entangled. One girl stumbled, fell, and was dragged lengthwise through the coals before helping hands could pull her to her feet again. The screaming intensified as the girls, now wrapped together in a writhing knot by the twisted rope, tumbled out through one temple gate, circled a stone statue and returned through another gateway. The boys, who had been kicking out the last ashes, stumbled, exhausted, back into the bale. Minutes later, the huddle of girls also staggered up the stairs and sank onto the floor in a tangled mass. Gradually the screams and sobs subsided. A girl's voice clear, calm and authorative rang through the silent temple. After the demented yammerings, the change was electrifying. Like a teacher instructing her pupils, the voice continued. When, the bar boy,
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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 |
