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the Ramayana story: The story takes place in the Himalayas and opens as Rama, a boy-childterror-prodigy is winning archery competitions and cleaning demons out of hermitages. He won his beautiful lady super-seductress Sita by his skill with the bow and arrow. The king's wicked wife demands that Rama. Sita, and his devoted brother Laksmana be sent into exile in order to put her own son on the throne. Because of an old promise the king must comply. Cheated of their throne and banished to the deep forest for 14 years, the three of them live with saints and hermits. The 10-headed giant-demon Rawana's sister one day wanders through the forest and catches sight of Rama, falling in love with him instantly. But Rama repulses her advances and she returns to Langka (Ceylon) to complain to her brother, the King of Demons. Rawana sends a servant in the shape of a beautiful golden deer who lures Rama away with Site's urging in order to kill it. Laksmana hears cries of pain and gives chase. While they're both gone, Rawana arrives and abducts Site, flying into the air back to his palace in Langka. A legendary bird, Garuda, dies while trying to rescue her from the demon's clutches. Then, with the help of the white monkey general Hunuman, the search begins. Hunuman sends his monkey armies in all four directions into the world to find her. Meanwhile in Langka, the captured Site refuses all Rawana's advances despite his tricks and threats. Hunuman finds Site and tries to set her free. On his way back to India the monkey general sets Rawana's capital on fire with his tail (this episode is a favorite /akon in wayang plays). Hunuman's monkey armies then invade Langka, throwing boulders into the sea to build a causeway. After a 12 year war with many fierce battles, Rama finally kills Rawana with a magic arrow. Sita is reunited, but then Rama puts her faithfulness to test by an ordeal of fire. Satisfied, they all fly back to their Himalayan Kingdom in dead Rawana's flying chariot. There, Rama ousts his half brother and assumes his rightful kingship and everyone lives happily ever after. In some versions, Rama, still doubting his wife's reputation, banishes her. She lives in the woods, giving birth to two sons. When Rama repents and asks her to return, she refuses and disappears into the earth. The poet, Valmiki, who wrote the oldest version, takes the two sons as apprentices and Rama eventually makes it to heaven where he regains his original shape as Vishnu.
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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 |
