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So began a friendship
that lasted until his death. At the time I thought angrily that these remarks by an American on a whistle-stop trip through Asia, made Agung sound like some rare zoological specimen. On reflection I had to ad it that this was only a variation of the usual tourist question: "Tell me, is he really a Prince Tjokorde Agung was born a Prince - more importantly he was born a gentleman. A gentleman of high . intelligence and great personal charm. A man steeped in Balinese culture, who had seen many fluctuations in the fortune of his beloved island - who had survived earthquakes and revolutions. Throughout change and turbolence his serenity and his humour remained unshaken. Certainly Agung brought added meaning to my visits to Bali. There was no festival or ceremony about which he did not have advice. No custom or tradition which he could not explain. But, on that first evening, when I accepted his invitation and joined his family at the Puri for the offering to his dead brother, I knew nothing of Balinese customs. I did not, for example, expect to eat a lavish serving of rystaffel squatting cross . -legged on the mat-covered floor of a pavilion which faced directly into the adjoining one, where the body, surrounded by a multitude of ornate offerings, lay inside its |
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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 |
