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An ancient woman ran barefooted into the square, her skeleton-like arms. held high above her head, her hips swaying to some inward rhythm, and -commenced a macabre dance around and between the dying bonfires. An attendant hurried forward, caught her, led her away and held her, arms pinioned against a wall, while the ceremony continued. An expectancy settled over the temple. The priest and his group in the bale were silent; the burning coconuts had settled into mounds of glowing oil-soaked coals. The eight boys were handed long spears. The priest passed a rope of white cotton among the girls-and commenced leading them down from the bale towards the firey heaps. One of the girls, her face contorted, her eyes rolling, threw back her head and began screaming. Another, and another, and yet another joined her.
A figure darted out of the shadows, ran through the centre of both piles, kicking at them with his bare feet, to send a shower of blazing embers through the air like a fiery snowstorm.
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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 |
