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den Brock calls war here a children's game; he might more accurately have
deemed it a life or death ritual, where antagonists strike blows at their
enemies within the purview of other-worldly rulers - a basic scene in Javanese-Balinese
drama and shadow-puppet theater. Indeed many Balinese traditions portray
the ideal raja and his allied Brahmana priests as such epical semidivinities,
only provisionally earth-bound, who dispatch their military heroes - the
patihs of Hindu-Javanese statecraft - to perform legendary tasks.' Yet these
epical aspects are only half the story. There are also those Balinese traditions
which value what happens when the epic falters, when the rigid social code
symbolized by caste divisions and the purity of the high born kingship repeatedly succumbs, only to be reconstituted. This other half of Bali occurs in the local-commoner aftermath of the aristocratic mass suicides (puputan), ill the alternative, extra-birthright mystic modes of legitimacy, in the rearticulation of hierarchical values at lower levels of the society, in the adaptation of esoteric court-literature into the vernacular, and in the tardy hotbed of political activity ( 1965) seventeen years after the revolutionary demise of a pro-tipper-caste colonial regime. After the epic-ending deluge, the romance. In short, tile glare from Van den Brock's lingering image of divine power at the top prevented many subsequent observers of Bait from perceiving those alternative traditional values it is our intention to stress. To emphasize the courtly epic of politico-religious expansion is to deeniphasize the visionary romance of refurbishing
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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 |
