Menek Kelih, Ngeraja Sewala, Ngeraja Singa

The ceremony 'menek kelih' or 'ngeraja sewala was' carried 'out' if 'the' child 'has' become 'the' adolescent', with the sign: the woman, already first menstruation; the man, already have 'batun salak' that is the hard part on the throat. Usually around the age 14 years, but could be faster. When first menstruation, waiting until the 'clean' child meaning that is finished menstruation, just was held by the ceremony. its aim was to remind the child that he or she already mature, and carefully took care of himself, as well as always pay attention to trikaya parisudha. Usually the ceremony is united with the ceremony metatah or the piece of teeth, as the parents owe for their child. Moreover we must request the Sanghyang Widhi gift in his manifestation as the God Smara and Dewi Ratih. The equipment (banten) to menek kelih, was enough: pejati, pengulapan, pengambean, prayascita, beakala, and tebasan pageh urip, pageh tuwuh.
me and my sister carried out menek kelih ceremony yesterday when we 20 years and 15 years. We invite all of our friend and also my parents friends.This is our first huge ceremony before wedding and ngaben. My family prepare it among 2 month for the sucess ceremony. Our ceremony is take a lead by Ida Pedanda or Balinese Pendeta or A Great Lord of Balinese People. He pray for us and try to connect between us and Our God. There are a lot of people in my home who become a witness for our ceremony. We are so happy becuse of that. There are also many people play gamelan in my home.

Bali Kites Festival in Sanur Beach

The kite festival was the site in a crowd the Balinese community that in did each year. Various kite models filled the Padang Coast Stern Sanur - Bali on Sunday on July 12 2008 yesterday. The model jumbo made the child's small toy through to beautiful if on the cloud. This festival in in followed by the Balinese resident who has been enough the age. The weather and the wind were very supportive so as all of participants's kites could go up. Dozens of kites from several countries that were flown together in the arena "Balinese Kite Festival (BKF)" in the Padanggalak field, Sanur, on Sunday, made sky in the region was colourfull. Because of the measurement of the kite that was big enough as well as was flown together in the number tens so, made the sunlight could experience the difficulty of 'breaking through the mainland, until seeming sky around the festival arena as if being stricken overcast. The kite that much, most came from local Balinese participants who reached approximately 739, the rest of them from the other area and several countries in the world. He said, in BKF the 30 foreign participants totalling 11 countries that took part in taking the part for the exhibition. They including the lover of the kite from Australia, Russia, Taiwan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, the United States, Japan, India and China. Participants from overseas that was appearing in the number of the creation kite, while the traditional kite was put forward by participants from inside the country, he said. For the traditional kite, was appointed by three kinds that were enclosed in the festival, namely Janggan, Pecukan and Bebean. While the creation kite, the form and his model were handed over fully to the participants

Ogoh Ogoh Festival in Bali

One unique activity in Bali a series of Nyepi public holiday was the procession of OGOH-OGOH yg will be carried out at the time of the day pengerupukan, that is a day before Nyepi. Pengerupukan was an activity to expel bhutakala (the devil). Generally Hindu group in Bali carried out this procession by means of striking various implements yg could dismiss the travelling sound the house while bringing fire. Ogoh-ogoh personally began to be introduced around in 1993. Whether from where his inspiration, spontaneously young children in Denpasar began to make a statue big had the shape of the animal from bamboo which was decorated, afterwards was paraded around the village during pengerupukan. Received the address yg positive from the wider community, ogoh-ogoh then developed from years. Design ogoh-ogoh was the animal, currently developed by the form of the giant, the leading figure pewayangan, until the leading figure of the cartoon & the ball player. The procession ogoh-ogoh that took place each year indeed not the ritual part of Nyepi celebration but more became part of creativity and the Balinese human culture. The procession ogoh-ogoh was carried out to liven up pengerupukan in the night by Nyepi. If the procession ogoh-ogoh this so the size then whether having the potential to make him to a cultural incident that was carried out again better? Cultural tourism that became the Balinese predicate certainly will get exciting if placing the procession on the agenda ogoh-ogoh as the appropriate street festival was appreciated by tourists. Everything after him was the Nyepi Public Holiday where the tourists could be asked to quiet and carried out contemplation in the Island of the Gods this. The street carnival in Pasadena or in Rio that was famous that perhaps was not bigger than the procession ogoh-ogoh in Bali. Happy New Year Caka 1930.

Med Medan in Bali

The unique TRADITION that up to now continues to remain in the Banjar Kaja Kelurahan Se- Setan was med-Medan. Med-Medan came from words omed-omedan that meaning that pulling each other. This tradition the routine was held to Ngembak Geni -- a day after the Nyepi Public Holiday. How the Med-Medan origin?
Several members Sekaa Teruna Satya Dharma Kerthi Banjar Kaja Se- Setan were involved in the agenda med-Medan. Before med-Medan was begun, the member sekaa the cadet carried out the prayer together in the Banjar Kaja Temple. The agenda was preceeded with the staging of the dance barong bangkal in the location med-Medan -- to be precise in jalan Sesetan-Kota Denpasar or in front of the Banjar Kaja Hall, SeSetan. Further dozens of members sekaa the cadet who has put on middle-level traditional clothes divided himself. The male member was in left (north the road) and the woman was in right (south). When the command was begun, respectively the scattering group crossed the location of the opponent of the kind. Pam's water was then poured out by the member krama the series to their body by using the bucket and the hose. In their soaking wet situation won by one of his members to be-pointed with the opposing member of the kind. Pulled-attraction then happened. The male member held the body the woman, so as to each other happen omed (pulled mutually-red). The romantic impression also apparently when their eyes collided mutually. So henceforth as far as all be alloted. The happy atmosphere of appearance in their face. The spectator's applause gave the spirit. At first when two opponents of the kind already mutually face to face and hugh. Said, med-Medan also could be abolished because of having the deviation took the form of the kiss scene. But the strange incident then happened. A pair of pig that was not known by his origin fought in the page of the Banjar Temple. Pig blood then was scattered everywhere. The resident of the series that saw the incident all of a sudden broke up him, but was not successful. Finally, there is bawos so that med-Medan continued to be held. Just as the tradition was held, the two pigs disappeared without the tracks. Blood that earlier was seen wetted the land, was lost instantly. Since so krama not dared to still abolished med-Medan so as lasting now.

Nyepi Day (The Silence Day)

The Nyepi Day (The Balinese Silence Day) was the change day in the Heritage year (Isakawarsa) that was celebrated every one year after tileming kesanga in sasih Kedasa.
The background of the history. 1. King's coronation Kaniskha I. New Year çaka began to be declared in the coronation of the king Kaniskha and the Kushana dynasty in the year 78 Masehi. 2. The year çaka in Indonesia. In ancient, was based on various lists of the inscription only was known the year çaka then. According to Negarakertagama, in the Majapahit time the change in the year çaka (the Caitra month to Waisaka) was celebrated on a large scale.The activity in Nyepi Day had two sorts that is:

1. A day before the Nyepi Day, exact in the month died (tilem) carried out the Bhuta Yadnya ceremony (mecaru).
2. In the Nyepi Day that is early the New Year the Heritage that fell in sasih Kedasa was carried out by the Yoga Samadhi ceremony.

There were four berata the obligatory prohibition was followed at the time of the Nyepi public holiday, was acknowledged as the Catur Berata Penyepian (four activity that shouldn't do), that is

1. Amati Geni or abstaining lighted api
2. Amati Karya or stopping all of the activity
   
3. Amati Lelanguan or abstaining from entertaining itself
   
4. Amati Lelungan or abstaining from going on a trip

In this holy Nyepi day silence we held introspection, united thoughts, as well as united was creative, the feeling, and the desire, headed the discovery of essence of the existence ourselves and essence of the life of the universal. The next day that is the Ngembak Geni public holiday, all the whole households went out of the yard and forgave each other with the neighbour and the friend who were met, in the atmosphere of the heart that was clean and was filled by the policy.

The Rangda Dance and It Secret

Rangda Dance was the queen from leak in mitologi Bali. This frightening creature it was related often kidnapped and ate the small child as well as led bad troops of the witchcraft grandmother against Barong, that was the symbol of the good strength. Told how that the big possibility of the widow came from the queen Manendradatta that lived in the Javanese island in the 11th age. He was isolated by the Dharmodayana king because of being accused of carrying out the witchcraft action against the queen of the two kings. According to his legend took revenge by killing half of the kingdom, that afterwards became his property as well as property Putra Dharmodayana, Erlangga. Afterwards he was changed by someone who was wise. The name of the significant widow also the widow. The widow really important for mitologi Bali. His battle against Barong or against Erlangga often was put forward in the dance. This dance really popular and was the important inheritance in the Balinese tradition. The widow was depicted as a woman with long hair that random-acakan as well as had the long nail. His face frightened and had sharp teeth. According to his etymology, said the widow who was known by us in Bali came from the Language Javanese Kuno that is from the Widow's significant words the widow (L. Mardiwarsito, 1986:463). The widow was the widow's term from the group of Tri Wangsa that is, Wesya, Ksatria and Brahmana. Whereas from the Sudra group was acknowledged as the Widower. Balu words in his soft Balinese were the widow. The further development of the widow's term for the widow was increasingly rare was heard by us, because of being worried caused the impression to be not good to remember the shape of the widow that 'aeng' (hair-raising) and frightened as well as was identical to the person who had left knowledge (pengiwa). This was especially obtained by us in performances of the folk tale. In other words, there was the frightened impression, was touched on and embarrassed when being said could neluh nerangjana (ngeleak). Actually the understanding above more often was inspired folk tales that inside were gotten the element of the widow. The biggest story his influence was Calonarang.

The Barong Dance

The Barong dance was the dance that was danced by two male dancers, a person played the head part barong as well as the foreleg, and another played the back leg part and the tail. Barong that had the shape of the animal mytologi this plenty of his sorts, there are those that his head had the shape of the head of the lion, the tiger, the male wild boar (bangkal), the elephant, the ox or keket. Keket by Balinese was regarded as the king of the forest that was mentioned also by the name of Banaspati King. The Barong dance was the dance that was danced by this Dance was the legacy of culture Pre Hindu that used the concrete doll the animal was four-footed or ancient humankind that had the magical strength. Expected by words barong came from words bahrwang or was interpreted by the bear, an animal mythology that had the invisible strength, it was considered as the patron. But in Bali in fact Barong not only in created in the four-footed animal but there is one that is two-footed. The Barong mask was made from wood that was taken from places of the armature like the cemetery, therefore Barong was the sacred object that really disucikan by the community of Hindu Bali. The performance of this dance with or without the act, always was preceeded with the demonstration of the performance that was accompanied with the gamelan that differed like the Kebyar Gong gamelan, the Babarongan gamelan, and the Batel gamelan. This dance was the legacy of culture Pre Hindu that used the concrete doll the animal was four-footed or ancient humankind that had the magical strength. The Barong mask was made from wood that was taken from places of the armature like the cemetery, therefore Barong was the sacred object that really pured by the Hindu community in Bali.