Three. Ubud

Under the banyan tree II. Ubud

Lighting incense. Ubud

Under the banyan tree. Ubud

daily rituals at the temple.

Rituals. Ubud

Daily rituals in the temple...

Basketry. Ubud

Selling what women use to bring the offerings to the temple on their head.

Chicken. Ubud

Ubud's market...

Pregembal jaja. Ubud

Women do it piece by piece and two men are building the whole pregembal for the temple anniversary.Cannot be eat!

Pick up. Petulu

After the cremation, everyone is coming back home; some are more sad than others...

Smoke and grilled corn. Petulu

The smoke is suffocating....

Collecting bones. Petulu

Smoke. Petulu

People are searching bone pieces in the ashes, they will get them in a coconut and bring it to the river or the sea.

Burned. Petulu

Men stop the fire and get off the pieces which could burn hours and hours; the rituals have to be processed...

Portrait. Petulu

During the cremation...

In the smoke III. Petulu

In the smoke II. Petulu

In the smoke. Petulu

Profile II. Petulu

Lost in her thoughts...

Profile. Petulu

Burning III. Petulu

Burning II. Petulu

Burning. Petulu

The burning is just beginning, all have to be burned, it's why families members drop these objects in the fire.

Generations. Petulu

theur grandfather's bones will be burned soon in the bull representation, you can see his portrait behind them.

Fashionable and traditions. Petulu

Just before the burning, white pieces of material are hanged on the bulls.

Procession. Petulu

Procession. Petulu

Joining the strenghtes. Petulu

We are in the cremation place, men are backing up the animals representation where will be burned the dead people bones. They have to burn without fall down!

Heavy. Petulu

The animal, in which the bones will be cremated is carried on a bamboo platform, on shoulders, to the cemetery.

Bus station. Petulu

After the cremation.

Curiosity. Petulu

Shyness. Petulu

Dark glance. Petulu

Kopeng. Petulu

A man of the village took the dress and mask of the kopeng, we are in the village , it's evening time and tomorrow the big cremation will be processed.

Watching at Rangda II. Petulu

Watching at Rangda I. Petulu

In the village, people are watching to Rangda the witch, a man of the village dressed in, everybody feels it in his own way...

Blue. Petulu

The ceremony in the village, one day before the big cremation is now ended...

Balinese house's gate. Petulu

Opposite. Petulu

Glance. Petulu

My dads plays gamelan music. Petulu

In the morning, the gamelan is playing in the village, it's now the cremation day...

Hanging from the animal representation in which will be burned the dead êople bones a drawing. It is supposed to explain what will be the future existence of her. Here the dead is a woman who like d too much physical relations during her life on earth. When I asked: "but is not there a problem to be showed to kids?" " Not at all, It's part of their education." It's true that balinese leearn very early things of life...

Girlie. Petulu

Mouth smiling and eyes crying; a nice face.

Balines house's gate. Petulu

Girls Petulu

Gate of the temple, in the evening.

Terrific keeper. Petulu

The balinese house's gate is well keeped!

The last detail III. Petulu

The last detail II. Petulu

The last detail I. Petulu

In the village each family have built her own animal in which the dead will be burn. The cremation will be processed in a few days, this boy is doing the last details. In Bali there are casts, but not so many than in India and each one have her own animal, here it is probably a member of the "satria" cast.(middle cast).