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describing new year. + ogoh-ogoh | | hits: | 115 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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This relegious festival begins with a day of celebration, followed by a day of silence. On the day of silence, Demons are said to fly over the island and any noise may attract them to stop | | hits: | 121 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Article. Jakarta Post
Initially, the giant dolls, popularly known as ogoh-ogoh, were created as the symbol of demonic spirits. In the Ngerupuk ritual, a sort of exorcism ritual taking place the night before Nyepi, the ogoh-ogoh are paraded around the village area to ward off any evil spirits.
In the parade, the ogoh-ogoh is accompanied by hundreds of screaming people carrying torches, striking gongs or manipulating any sound-producing implements available in an apparent attempt to scare away the demons. At the end of the ritual, the ogoh-ogoh is usually taken to the village's main intersection and set on fire......
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| Description: | The Kukeri: A Bulgarian Ritual to ensure the advent of SpringIn the rural (farming) villages of Bulgaria, the "Kukeri" is a important masked ritual, carried forward from the Thracians. They dance in the last days of the winter, just before nature comes back to life. | | hits: | 127 | | Added on: | 02-Jun-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Giants. Floats.
Parades are held all over Bali, but without doubt the largest and most spectacular is in Denpasar. The ogoh-ogoh are brought out at sunset and when the accompanying bleganjur music, the most ?demonic? of Balinese gamelan music, strikes up, Denpasar becomes the Rio of the East. The ogoh-ogoh carriers, who are bound for the Puputan Square in central Denpasar, perform a strange, jerky dance, surging back and forward or suddenly turning in a circle to give the impression that the floats are really alive.... | | hits: | 132 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Bali New Year.
In the evening, the people will perform the Pengrupukan ceremony to appease the evil spirits who descend on earth on this particular night to disturb the equilibrium of world peace. People, young and old, will crowd the street, light fires and make any conceivable noise in the belief that will distract the spirits. A procession of unusual effigies is carried also in this night. The effigies, which are known as Ogoh-ogoh, are made of papier-mache and bamboo frame, and are the symbol of the evil spirits. Each cormmunily will work hard to create the most impressive Ogoh-ogoh to carry around the village.................. | | hits: | 133 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Northern Tligit
by Aldona Jonaitis | | hits: | 137 | | Added on: | 21-May-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | No one is allowed to photograph them. In fact, the myth about nouna masks goes on to say that if you try to do so, the film will not contain an image.
They are ritual symbols and only make public appearance for certain kind of traditional ceremonies: death of an elder belonging to the family of the masks, annual home coming of the masks, and sacrifices offered to the "siou" which is the spirit and essence of masks. They have antic heads and black robes, and some of the heads are over centuries old.
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| Description: | + photos of giant demons
The most interesting part of Nyepi for visitors is the visual spectacles of ogoh-ogoh (monsters) created by many of the villages throughout Bali to be used as a part of a huge island-wide exorcism on the eve of Nyepi. The youth of the various village banjar (local council areas) take great delight in competing with the neighbouring villages to create the most gruesome and terrifying-looking ogoh-ogoh in the month preceding Nyepi. | | hits: | 143 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Description: | Describing the rituals. (+ Ogoh-ogoh ) | | hits: | 149 | | Added on: | 21-Jul-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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