Tegallalang village is the art center area in the suburbs of Gianyar Bali, suddenly so crowded and riuh. There is so enthusiastic to welcome the New Year's Birthday Sakaka 1939.
They are even early to cheer up Ogoh-Ogoh as compared to other villages in Bali which are generally a day before Nyepi Day.
Since the day they gathered in seven groups of taruna corals make the preparation of Ogoh-Ogoh’s cultivation for the evening.
The people witness the results of Ogoh-Ogoh held arak-arakan in the village of 1939 in Tegallalang, Gianyar, Bali. The Hindu religious courts led rituals to the Ogoh-Ogoh Hari Raya Nyepi Year Saka 1939 in Tegallalang Village, Gianyar, Bali.
The people of Balinese women brought a sesajen side of Ogoh-ogoh mirrored Hari Raya Nyepi Year 1939 in the village of Tegallalang, Gianyar, Bali.
Ogoh-Ogoh or giant doll is a giant figure or monster watering that can interfere with humans. So far, the monster is the mirror of negative things that can poison the thoughts, deeds and words.
The main purpose is to neutralize various negative things in nature, whether the universe/environment or called "Bhuana Agung" or in oneself of humans or "Bhuana Alit" before running the worship of Nyepi.
Although the face of watering, the teenagers in Tegallalang are able to design the giant doll so artistic, as well as the monsters are real living when heared on the highway.
The color prepares rituals for the Ogoh-Ogoan Harideka Harima.
Thousands of people from seven groups of people take care of joy, riuh by diiring the gamelan cheered the creativity of his art around the village to return the negative power to his nature.
Therefore, in addition to the rituals of the larynology, the parade also became a sedentary event as well as complicated brotherhood among them. So hundreds of domestic tourists and foreigners present a smell at that location to witness the annual tradition.
Overall in Bali, there is a 7,000 Ogoh-Ogoh has been prepared a long day before at 1.480 the village of this year. Arak-arakan will be tracked on the Day of Dr. Raya.
Arak-arakan lasts the afternoon to the evening that became a series of Tawur Kesanga rituals namely the ritual of the curban to neutralize the negative things so that the nature becomes hening and peaceful the next day.
On Hari Raya Nyepi the atmosphere of the deterioration in the Island of Gods will be total stop for 24 hours. The Hindu charity runs four pans that are not traveling, not using fire, not enjoying entertainment and not working.
Photo and Text: Budhiana Nyoman
