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This might have been a good solution, except that every time there is a temple festival, it begins with a procession to the river to collect holy water, and, up to the present day, these processions are led by little girls - the rejang. Once the Raksasas, as the villagers now called the two monsters, were living in the cave, whenever a procession went down to the river, the Raksasa would jumpt out, grab one of the little rejang - and eat her. Soon, all the villages around Ubud were terrified (as well they might be, with young girls becoming scarcer than virgins in a brothel). Then came a time when there were no processions to the temple - and the Raksasa became so hungry they were forced to leave the shelter of their cave and tramp through the fields searching for someone to take home for tea, as it were. In one field they saw a man ploughing, but when they tried to catch him, the poor man grabbed a fistful of mud, frantically moulded it until it looked like a large, fat leech and shook it at the Raksasa, in the hope of scaring them off. The Raksasas were indeed terrified, because they dread leeches - they were also hungry. So the female Raksasa ran to a tree and commenced stropping her tusks, until they tangled with the roots and couldn't be freed. Seeing what had happened, the farmer rushed up, lopped off her head, and pinned it to the ground with his spade. To this day, the spot where the Raksasa was killed is known as Pacekan, which means "fasten to the ground", and on the short walk from Tjampuhan to Penestenan, the path takes you right through this famous ricefield.
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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 |
