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to be any firebathing, this Nyonya was not going home until I saw it. For some time it continued thus, while the air whitened with incense. One final outburst of moaning and then the group slowly rose to their feet. In a close line they quietly followed the priest up the steps and into an adjoining bale. Attendants now hastily cleared all onlookers out of the courtyard. The tall pyramids of broken coconuts stood alone in the centre of the square. An attendant approached, touched a match to fibre, and the coconuts leapt into two blazing pyramids of fire. Attendants now circled the pyres, stoking the flames with long poles. Boiling oil bubbled out of the shells and formed a dark ring on the ground around the flames. The attendants continued their prodding. Slowly the flames began to flicker and die.
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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 |
