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On arrival 1 had been allotted a houseboy, escorted down a flight of roughhewn stone steps, across a bamboo bridge, spanning a miniature, but vocal, waterfall and installed in my bungalow. A bungalow let me tell you, that would have had Somerset Maughan down on his knees begging for admittance. A bungalow with a thatched roof and walls made of bricks the color of ripe apricots, set between slabs of pale grey sandstone. A bungalow with windows fitted, not with glass, but with shutters of plaited palm painted a gay canary yellow. A bungalow where flowers hung from the ceiling in coconut shells or were massed in bowls of blazing colour on every shelf or table. A bungalow which for me at that time had but one point of interest - where was the sandbox? Hastily I tried a door opening off the bedroom and stepped into what was obviously my Balinese sandbox. A gleaming white pedestal stood beside a waist-high white tiled enclosure, a canvas bush-shower was suspended over a sunken recess, and a table draped with bright batik completed the cheery effect. I smiled happily. Five minutes later 1 emerged - neither smiling or happy. A pub with no beer was one thing - a comfort station without water was something else again. And not a tap, button or chain could 1 find. In the living room 1 could see Sana, my houseboy, busily tucking fresh hibiscus blooms into an already overflowing table decoration. "How do i wash my hands?" 1 asked.
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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 |
