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The sacred legends documented for royal houses in classical Hinduized-Java and still current in contemporary Balinese society proliferate where social structural norms have been contradicted. For example, when an incorporated house reputedly arises from the descendants of a raja's concubine, as in the present case, or originates matrilocally, or when a subhouse temporarily achieves a prominence rivaling that of the original larger group without actually breaking away, plentiful magical and religious reasons are adduced to explain these states of at-fairs. Yet our general argument is not that contradicted social norms cause compensatory other-worldly concerns, but only that contradictions can renew interest in dormant ritual and tore. Patent social structural principles are axiomatic and need no such obvious reinforcement. To take a specific example, ancestor legends in Bali do not clarify wily a genealogically appropriate primary descendant failed to measure up in individual achievements to his birth - that is not the issue. The descent and marriage principles are strong enough to withstand refutation by this frequent 1 exceptional' case. A thousand conspicuously average eldest sons born of patricousin spouses would not refute the high-caste cultural 'rightness' of a lone ascendant figure in this position. The issue addressed by the legends is rather why individuals not so qualified by birth should achieve prominence. Such legends tackle the easier contradiction while avoiding the other unsolvable problem (why the genealogically privileged individual actually failed) that would be less the province of scholastic legend and more that of doubting philosophy. Scholasticism still reigns in Bali. |
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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 |
