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said, then the tree and offering are sprinkled with holy water.
One of the world's biggest seeds, the coconut gives copra and its milk and grated mom we important ingredients in many Balinese dishes. The strong, hard, pest-resistant wood makes outstanding building timber. The woody husk provides excellent fuel for cooking fires, the black husk fiber (duk) makes an abrasive dish cleaner.brushes (sepet), rope, brooms, and is also used as rooting material. Small leaves of the central branch go to fashion containers. Whole coconut leaves (don nyuh) are the main material from which to weave mats (tikar) used for sitting on or as temporary walls or roofing. Any Balinese can fashion a coconut leaf into a tikar in five minutes. Many of the intricate arid beautiful offerings made by the women are from the young leaves of this useful palm. Yellow coconuts of the dwarf, coconut tree provide a receptacle for holy water.
Young coconuts, always available on request, make a sweet and refreshing drink and their soft jelly-like meat is a real treat. White coconut oil is the only oil used for cooking on Bali. Frothy palm beer, tuak is also derived from this tree. Coconut palms are individually owned often by a different person than the owner of the land. The coconuts on to tree are the property of the tree's owner, but a coconut that falls belongs to the person who picks it up.
Other useful palm tress we the sugar and lontar palms. The Balinese use toffee like leaves of the sugar palm to make offerings, particularly the magnificent lamak banners that adorn gateways during the yearly celebration of Galungan. The lontar palm provides raw materials for making many everyday articles. Lontar leaves, after being dried and pressed, are bound into a book pages and inscribed with elegant Sanskirt like Balinese characters (tulisan Bali )

Bamboo
Thirteen species of this giant grass grow on Bali. Bamboo (tiing) has countless uses: it can be eaten, fed to cattle, and made into paper, rice steamers, clothespins, crab. traps, boxes, flutes, ladders, firecrackers, fishing poles, unbelievably strong twine. Lengths of bamboo tubing are used as haunting resonators in Balinese xylophonic instruments, and sometimes whole orchestras consist of bamboo key instruments (tingklik) which produce a unique, mellow, liquid sound. Sections of tubing make a perfect cup for imbibing tuak, and bamboo shoots are cut and eaten as vegetables. Long, flat strips of bamboo tubing are fashioned into mats, baskets, walls. Bamboo pipes, often several kilometers long, can be seen arcing over Balinese roads. Halved bamboo stalks are used as clappers in the rice fields to scare birds away. Ingenious and melodious musical windmills are made out of bamboo; see them at Kubu Ku Wind-chimes near the Ubud Monkey Forest. The village of Bona (near Blahbatuh, Gianyar Regency) specializes in bamboo tables, chairs, and other furniture made out of attractive spotted bamboo( tiing tutul

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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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