More than the hundreds of people from the big family of the bustle hajat and the banjar people climb towards the Great Tegal Beach, Banjarangan, Klungkung, to implement Melasti as a series of "Ngenteg Linggih" ceremony and "Mupuk Pedaging". A large family of mutual assistance prepares sesaji and "pratima" that will be used in Melasti ceremony.
"Pratima" and a variety of pura fittings are carried by diiring the "baleganjur", then touched to sea water as a symbol of purifying. After that, led a "struck", a fresh facing wisdom was carried out, the procession was covered by a salary to the sea.
The procession carried out one of the major families in Banjar Selat region, Banjarangan, Klungkung, in the framework of the ceremony "Ngenteg Linggih" and "Mupuk Pedagingan" post-augaran pura on August 2016, was one of the forms of the ceremony of Melasti Balinese Hindus in small scope. Melasti ceremony in local customs is at least once a year, which is awaiting the Hari Nyepi or the New Year Saka.
A number of citizens are preparing to depart to implement Melasti Ceremony in Banjar Selat, Banjarangan, Klungkung, Bali.
The number of citizens carry out the completeness of the temple when it will carry Melasti Ceremony in Banjar Selat, Banjarangan, Klungkung, Bali.
Melasti or mekiyis is one of Bali’s Hindu rituals related to the sea or other water sources. This ceremony can be interpreted as a procession of self-cleaning is born or inner. Melasti is a procession of bringing all "pratima" (the symbol of gods as a means of worshiping God Almighty and all his completeness) to fight all the courage and negative elements of the world in the middle of the ocean.
For Hindu communities in Bali, the sea is a sacred area. The same thing with rivers, lakes and springs. The sea is also believed to be able to clean all visible dirt or not, which is also a miner of the amerta or water source of life.
Photo and Text: Ismar Patrizki
The number of citizens prepare to implement the Melasti Ceremony in Banjar Selat, Banjarangan, Klungkung, Bali.
The number of citizens carry pratima and pear the completeness of the temples driving towards the location of the Melasti Village in Banjar Selat, Banjarangan, Klungkung, Balisti.
