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ancestor-group of over five-hundred members, to be described, has been a
significant political force in modern Bali; its sense of corporate and political
identity is more developed than that of many ancestor-temple congregations
(pemaksan). Yet this group's current use of legends and redefined rites
to adjust to heterogenetic, even revolutionary, social changes recalls traditional
ways of legitimizing augmented status in Bali in light of new opportunities.
The group's elders relate current political policies to classical statecraft
and detect varied echoes across the rapid succession of Balinese epochs.
They thread together stipple traditions which simultaneously celebrate great
traditional Hindu founders of a self-sustaining social unit, articulate
folk anxieties over demonic influences in times of hardship, and confront
the life and death politics of post-Sukarno Indonesia. Front the details
of their own legends and the social context sustaining them, one can appreciate
the complexities in the operation of ancestor cults in Bali and perhaps
in neighboring islands as well.
The legendary trek of Marketside East In Bali any politically
significant group, regardless of caste standing, embellishes the story
of its origins. Although our case study lacks a sacred manuscript legitimizing
its status (kawi suda), elders have formulated a piecemeal account, set
in an authentic classical landscape:
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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 |
