Story of Bali, Indonesia

Market.... A wrinkled woman sways gracefully past, a basket piled high with freshly picked spinach - dew still glistening - balanced on her head. A man swings by, the ends of his batik caught up around his waist to protect it from the wet grass, a large openwork cane basket slung across his shoulder. Through the openings in the cane, small, beady black eyes gaze trustingly out at the passing world - another batch of ducks heads for the market.

A young woman passes, her red kebaya a splash of colour against the apple green rice shoots, an obese swaybacked pig trotting happily beside her, led by a piece of string. Another woman glides past, a tightly rolled kapok mattress resting crosswise on her head, a laughing child clinging to either hand.

And now a group approaches - a young man, surrounded by a swarm of excited childrep, all eagerly looking up at the brightly coloured kite the man is flying. They pass, and it is not a kite they are watching, but the magnificent kupu-kupu barong (the giant Balinese butterfly) that they have fastened to a string - a living kite of many colours.

But already a brighter colour is staining the clouds - an intense vermilion - as the sun edges its way up above a row of palms bordering the river. The vermillion stain deepens and spreads, tinting any cloudlet in its path, until the sky is now a patchwork of pearl and flame.

 

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in Bali 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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