Wood as a Symbol of the Human Body

Bed for bathing

Dead body placed into a special place with his/her picture and clothes

Balinese musical

Carving of Balinese musical Instruments

The bodies (wood) move to bathe

Chinese koin, use for offering complement

Dressing stuf for the dead

A wood symbol of the dead

Materials for bathing, containing spices and scented oils

A symbol of dead people and place for the spirit

Watching from a distance

A person with high caste led the ceremony of each family

Watering

Each family hands closing the genital

Cleaning the nails, only a symbolic

The oldest son spouted spices, as a symbol in order to keep the dead body warm

Ready, the wood already clean and dressed

There was three villages that have done the same things

Children also interested the ceremony as a cultural inheritors

A woman from other family prepare the bathing

After the bath, known as "ngeringkes, which wraps all the symbols of the dead with white sheets and mats written in the sacred script.

Previously I've reviewed about a dead body and the bathing ceremony of burial. Now I review mass Ngaben/ cremation held on July 23 - 2010 in the Katik lantang village, Ubud, Gianyar. After the villagers perform a long process for more than three months of working together to make offerings, is now the first step is to arouse the spirits of the family died from the grave and transferred to a timber through the ceremony. Unfortunately I missed the seance. I just attended the bathing ceremony. Perhaps logically, the bodies that have long been rotting in the ground is too hard to be bathed because they are no longer intact, so that only the souls who were moved into a small wood of human shape as a symbol of the human body.

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