DAY 4 8.7Ceremonies happen everywhere every moment in Bali. This one we went to in the morning was a continuation of the family ceremony we attended yesterday. It took place in a few temples first and then the Seseh beach for a Nganyut ceremony for more purification rituals for the soul to continue the journey. Everyone has a role to play in the ceremony. Women decorated with fruits and flowers on their heads led the people, while men playing gamelan music followed behind. Each compound has a family temple, and you can see many temples for different uses as well by just walking down the streets. Every single one of them is has a stone carved gate, though some might be aged, none of them was done without elaborate design. Arriving at the beach, women and children gathered together, gamelan musicians kept playing and priests blessed the offerings and the people with holy water Just like the family ceremony we went yesterday, many different things were going on concurrently. Referring to what Ms. VanGelder told me I started to develop the impression of the hospitality of Balinese. She said Bali has the most welcoming and tolerating practice of religion above all, now for instance, even if we were just strangers walking pass by, Balinese would warmly invite us into their ceremony and offer us food as long as we were dressed appropriately in pakian adat(traditional dress).
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getting back from beach ceremony
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