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imperfectly recalled, precolonial genealogy is important to modern Market
side East because of privileges these predecessors reputedly won from the
raja in matters of sex, status, power, and death, nearly everything dear
to the classical Balinese. These current visions of past glories suggest
how commoner groups often assumed royal prerogatives - an important phenomenon
in traditional Balinese society.
Proud elders recount that in sexual affairs Marketside East was licensed to maintain, raja-fashion, a Haremlike assemblage of outsider candidate-wives known as chichirinan. In the raja's case these girls were the flawless pick of the kingdom and included specimens abducted from the subjects of his own collaterals. Picture, as informants did, the fathers of the realm nervously harboring their loveliest daughters, forbidding them to bear towering offerings to temple festivals, lest they be espied by a royal scout and hustled into the closely protected female quarters of the palace, where the eyes of male visitors were restricted to foot level. For there was slim chance a girl would become a legitimate low-caste wife (penawing) of the raja, thus placing her family in an ongoing, advantageous wife-giving relationship (wargi) to the court. More likely after affording a few years' licentious satisfaction, she would degenerate into a slavelike servant. Supposing she did ascent to penawing, the danger persisted that if the over enamored raja treated her in a fashion suitable only for same-caste wives (padmi). she might incur the jealousy of the lesser royal families and not live to become even slavelike - or so recalled current informants from the tales of their fathers and grandfathers. They say that a wealthy father whose child had fallen into royal hands would often pay a bribe to retrieve her. Or rather than take a risk, a less wealthy father might perforate any desirable daughter'
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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 |
