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brocade-draped casket. In the narrow space between the two pavilions, a group of thirty or more relatives were playing a lively gambling game, while seated beside the body, an elderly priest was
chanting from a large book spread open across his knees. Occasionally a small boy by his side, solemnly turned a page.

It was at this ceremony I learned that one does not stand higher than a prince. When I wanted to rise, I had to slide on my bottom over several yards of matting, weaving my way between the seated guests, until I could swing my feet over the edge of the pavilion and stand on the ground some 3-ft. below, thus coming to a standing position with my head lower than my host.

Following that evening, my visits to Bali were invariably woven with events suggested by Agung.

There was the day he asked "Have you seen the trance ceremony at Kesiman
Hurrying to that village I found it already seething with emotion and sightseers. And how not. Not one, but seven neighboring Barongs, together with their opposing Rangdas, accompanied by a retinue of virgin boys, would come that day to the Pura Kesiman. In due course, when all the Barongs had assembled in the sacred inner courtyard, the priests would put the young boys into trance and they would accompany the Barongs, Rangdas and priest in a frenzied procession - three times circling the temple.