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True, it is easy_to make mistakes about temples. Let me tell you of my first visit to one. I arrived in Bali just alt. the beginning of a most important festival. On all sides I was urged: "You must visit Mother Temple during the Elephant Day Festival." Intrigued with the name of the Festival, I hired a car and set off. Actually, I would have preferred a motorbike, but the guide took one look at me and advised "At your age - better take car." So, here I was, lolling back in the taxi, listening to gamelan music on the casette and watching mile after mile oil utterly unreal scenery roll past. Until we arrived at Besakih, and there stood Mother Temple, framed against a background of mists and cloud, mul muls flying. ceremonial umbrellas unfurled, her steps and
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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 |
