Senin, 11 Maret 2013

Melasti in Petitenget Beach


Melasti, Melasti or Melis ceremony, began the ritual celebration of Nyepi. Balinese Hindus throng to the sea and other water sources for nganyudang malaning ngamit tirta Amertha gumi, which washed away all the dirt in your life and taking water from the ocean, rivers, lakes, and other sources as a symbol of purification, inner, with a prayer to the Source of Life . Wearing a white majority, they flock to the coast by foot from their village. The ceremony which was in the west is very different from the Melasti in the east, they thrust a weapon "keris" was entered as the spirit. Melasti Ritual is performed every year in the Petitenget beach with dozens of villages.