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Jumat, 04 Maret 2011

Silent Day

 Bloggers, just for your information, I'm a Balinese girl who lives in Bali since I was born. Bali is an island which contains of more than thousands temple, beautiful scenery, and unique culture. And now, I would tell u about one of our holy day, it called Nyepi or it means 'Silent Day'. In this day, we have four prohibition to do or it called 'Catur Brata Penyepian' which contains of Amati Geni (prohibition to turn on the electricy or fire), Amati Karya ( prohibition to work), Amati Lelungan (prohibition to go out), and Amati Lelanguan (prohibition to have fun such as held a party, drink, etc). It's like local genius which comes from our ancestor. So, in this day, our island is so silent. Nobody go out, no vesicle, no noise, no flight schedule (airport was closed). U would feel the fresh air today, blue sky, and a lot of star on the sky tonight because no light in this island (except the emergency area like hospital). In this day, we are expected to conduct self-control against things that smell worldliness and close to God. And of course, this tradition support to decrease global warming too, let guess how much energy we can save even just a day...

 silent road in silent day 
Before celebrate this holy day, the day before, we pray to the temple with our tradition clothes. For woman, the top called kebaya, and the bottom called kamen.


tradition clothes

 
Its called Canang Sari, many kind of flower put on young coconut leaves in square form. We use it to pray. It symbolism how we thankful for all the gift of God.

 
temple silhouette

Then, at yesterday night, we had Ogoh-Ogoh parade. Ogoh-ogoh means giant statue made of cork styrofoam and decorated bamboo matting. Its symbolism of carnality, evil, and all the bad things in the world. So, it resemble made in hideous forms such as ghosts, ugly giant, and etc. After parade, we burn it, hope all that bad things will be disappear before we celebrate Nyepi and Hindu's new year.

Ogoh-ogoh
 *all photos except the first photo is my photograph, enjoy :)


19 komentar:

  1. i follow you back!
    keep in touch yay :)

    btw, happy nyepi day dear :)

    BalasHapus
  2. I would like to visit your place someday and try the food too.

    BalasHapus
  3. happy silent day for you :)

    btw , thanks for leaving a sweet comment at my blog
    :)
    ive followed you
    mind follow me back ? thank you :)

    ailovesclothes.blogspot.com

    BalasHapus
  4. Love the traditional clothing.
    Kisses.

    BalasHapus
  5. hey, thank you 4 following dear...anyway, Happy Nyepi day ya...last week in my town (Semarang), we also have Ogoh-Ogoh Parade, unfortunately there was raining :( hope somday I can go to Bali again...cheer y'

    BalasHapus
  6. Love the traditional clothing :)

    Love, Vanilla

    BalasHapus
  7. WOW!! Love theses pictures.HAPPY SILENT DAY!! Love Sia x

    BalasHapus
  8. The traditional clothing is really great!
    I like it!
    xoxo

    BalasHapus
  9. Happy silent day :-)
    I loved reading about this, as I'm unfortunately not familiar with Bali's traditions. The clothes look beautiful & the food super yummy (I love Asian food!).

    BalasHapus
  10. great post, you look good :)

    BalasHapus
  11. Hi, lovely! mind to visit and follow me?
    I've follow you back then =)

    http://pramuditapuspitatemi.blogspot.com/

    BalasHapus
  12. really lovely post girl:)! I may have some traditional clothing somewhere in my closet aswell:p you look really good with the clothing on:) have a blessed sunday!

    BalasHapus
  13. I GIVE YOU BLOGGER AWARD!!!
    XOXO

    BalasHapus
  14. :) visiting,
    selamat nyepi ya.

    -hans

    BalasHapus
  15. Oh i love traditional clothes i have my chinese and viet dress..I am following u now darling..thank u for dropping in my blog..I like ur blog too..xo

    BalasHapus
  16. Hi!
    Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog! I already follow you dear! Thanks so much for this post!! I totally love it! Where is Bali? Is it near Japan? Sry for being so silly in geography lol, I really love your traditional ways which are so much different from ours Meditterean!!

    hope to hear from you soon,
    jos xx

    BalasHapus
  17. oh mi gosh! i love your outfits here!

    BalasHapus