Most people know Balinese cremation only a ceremonial and bull paraded. Then there is a little ritual that took place before the top event which on the hunt by the photographers as I was when the atmosphere of burning cattle, bade, or cremation. Actually there are many series of ceremonies before and after Ngaben/ cremation in Bali. A ceremony that little bit scary, named "Ngagah", which means digging back bones and burn it with the bulls. This ceremony held at dawn after wood bath and a couple of hours before Ngaben.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wood as a Symbol of the Human Body
Bed for 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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