Ngaben not apply to all areas in Bali. One example Trunyan. Trunyan is a traditional village in Bali, located in Bangli. Trunyan divided into two separated by a lake. Trunyan derived from the word "Taru" and "Menyan" is a very large tree located in the area of traditional village cemetery. To get to the cemetery area, we have to cross the lake.
Death in Trunyan not burned as cremation in general. If there is someone who dies, he will get the same ritual in general such as termination of the inner iktan with family, baths, and other rituals are almost the same as most of the Bali mainland. Unique and interesting of the procession of death in the village of Trunyan is not burned corpse dirtakkan but only just above the ground after the pastor gave offerings in the graves. The bodies of such grave took with them clothes, money, and also the equipment that he used during his lifetime. The bodies are covered with fabric to the extent of the chest and around it is lined with bamboo in the local language is called "acak saji". Something unique is happening here is that although the bodies are not buried or burned, the body does not smell bad, because people have confidence that the big tree in the cemetery absorb the stench of the corpse. Another unique thing is that the funeral procession was followed by the women in the village Trunyan but only men who deliver and do all the procession.
Forerunner of the villagers did not burn or bury the corpse is, Once past the village of confusion because it appears very pungent smell, after the search was the smell that comes from a large tree known as the Taru incense, fragrant odor it sometimes to make people until cold. The idea of elders in the village, diletakanlah bodies from under the trees to neutralize the smell of the scent and the idea was successful, people no longer terganngu with a pungent aroma. The procedure for the funeral samapai still carried on today.
There are regulations, because the number of bodies buried in this cemetery should be no more than 11 bodies, which in my position here is a corpse that died a natural death and never married, there was another name for this cemetery is the Sema Wayah. In addition to this wayah Trunyan Sema also has another cemetery, where the cause of unnatural death, such as accidents, suicide, or murdered, his body will be placed in a location called Sema Bantas. As for the burying infants and small children, or people who've grown but not married, will be placed in the Sema Muda. In Scientific why not remove the stench remains, as happened in the village is still a question mark.
To achieve Trunyan Tourism Village, we can Kadisan motor boating village, Kintamani is located approximately 65 kilometers north of Denpasar. Kintamani own, we will be satisfied by serving exotic scenery. A mix of sparkle blue water of Lake Batur is the background of towering Mount Batur. Coupled with cool temperatures, making the atmosphere more beautiful.
Trunyan has five row, which is located relatively far apart. This village center is Trunyan, a village located on the eastern edge of Lake Batur. Four other is the Banjar Banjar Associate, Banjar Bunut, Banjar Mucous, and Banjar Puseh. Associate and Banjar Banjar Bunut in the south of the village and the adjacent Trunyan Karangasem regency. From the village of Banjar Bunut Trunyan to take about two hours on foot. That, too, through the trail and climb Mount Abang. Trunyan residents refer to themselves as Bali derivatives, that is, those who first fell from the sky and the land from the island of Bali. While other so-called Bali Balinese tribe who came from Java, which spread into the future kingdom of Majapahit
After boating for approximately 30 minutes from the village of Kintamani Kadisan, we will arrive at the slopes of Mount Abang sturdy towering like a fortress palace. Village of Trunyan own, we must boating along the foothills to the location of the grave brother, about ten minutes. We will arrive at a temple located at the foot of the western slopes of Mount Abang, on the shores of Lake Batur. Dalem, his name. Not far from the temple stands a wooden dock right in front of a temple gate to the location of Sema Wayah.
The wooden structure standing on the edge, we again presented two contrasting natural wonders, but fascinating. Turned to the west, across Lake Batur with small ripples in blue water, towering Mount Batur is stout with a clearly visible peak. However, it turned to the east, a large tree shaded the altar stone that exude a form of magical aroma. There are no flowers or fruit offerings like altar praying, that there are only dozens of human skulls lined up neatly.
No need to fear. Because every life will revolve in one definite direction. It is precisely this object reminds us of the end of life, which makes us stay away from all kinds of pride and arrogance.
The journey back from the village to Kadisan Trunyan, it helps us stop a moment to Toyabungkah tourist area. Tourism is a natural hot springs. This object is used by many travelers to immerse the body because they can cure diseases especially skin diseases. The water is accommodated in a small pond that is adjacent to the lake Batur. Toyabungkah including the Village area is located at the foot of Mount Batur Batur Lake Batur or on the edge of West a distance of over 6 km of kurag Kedisan village, 38 km from the city of Bangli, and 78 km from Denpasar City.
Geographically Bangli district, where the village is located Trunyan is the only area of Bali Province that has no coastline. However, the nature of its tourism potential is no less interesting for us to enjoy. In addition to area attractions Batur, which is Mount Batur and Lake Batur is located at an altitude of 900 m above sea level the air cool air temperatures during the day and cold at night, there are also other uniqueness of the ancient relics, inscriptions Trunyan. It is said that history in the year 813 Saka (891 AD), King Singhamandawa allowed the derivatives (Trunyan) to build the temple. Shrine of the seven-story building is a shrine of Lord Da Tonta.
This seven-storey temple called Pura Down Hyang. Stored inside the trusted Megalithic stone statues and sacred society as the statue of Da Tonta Trunyan. This temple is also known as Pura Pancering Keep. Every other year in this temple held a big ceremony. Precisely at Purnama Sasih Kapat. Trunyan communities celebrate by staging a sacred dance, Barong dance Brutuk and Sanghyang Dedari.
Trip to Bangli
Ngaben’s Equipment
On the previous posting has been described that ngaben is not as simple as you thing because it is traditional ceremony. So there are a lot of ngaben’s equipment. Ngaben’s equipment base on someone social status. The more high someone social status there are a lot of equipments they need. Not only social status influence the ngaben ceremony but key is also about economy. If someone doesn’t have enough money to held ngaben ceremony, the family will burry the body before they have enough money to held it. But there is another solution before they can collect a lot of money that is mass ngaben. What is mass ngaben? Mass ngaben is ngaben which is hold by one group or one village. So the mass ngaben is the best solution for someone who has low economic background.
and then now we back to talk about ngaben’s equipment. For a rich people they can buy it in a special place called sangging. Sangging is someone who has a special skill making all of ngaben’s equipment. As the era had changed now people prefer to buy everyting that they need. Before long long time ago the community made all of the ngaben’s equipment at home. Of course it needed much time and a lot of cost. Might be it took a few months to finish it. So, because of that now people are busy in their jobs, they prefer to order it to the sangging.
There are many kinds of ngaben’s equipment such as bade and lembu. Lembu is the special ngaben’s equipment because only used by high caste people and the color also different like the white lembu is special for Brahmana, black lembu is for Ksatria, and for the unmarried people he has high caste so he use yellow or white lembu because people still considered that he still suci. Lembu is made from bamboo and it shape like lembu and wrap by clorfull papper. Bade is like a tower where the body is put insinde it and all of the community member carried on their shoulders to the cemetery. When they pass across road, T-juncition they have to round the bade for three times to the clock wise. They to do it because it is a custom and they belive the soul can not back home again. If ngaben ceremony using lembu, they carried of also the lembu to the cemetery and when they arrived at the cemetery the body is taken out from the bade and it is put inside the lembu. After the blessing finish, the eldest son lit the fire to burn the lembu which contain the body inside it. The bode is also burn together with the lembu. That’s why ngaben cost much money.
the body
Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter
Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week.
Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011.
The objects are among the smallest moons yet discovered in the solar system, each measuring only about a kilometer (0.62 mile) wide.
(Related: "New Moon Discovered Orbiting Pluto.")
Unlike Jupiter's four large Galilean moons, which are visible from Earth with even small backyard telescopes, both new moons are dim and very distant from the planet, taking about 580 and 726 days to complete their orbits.
Scientists had previously discovered new Jovian satellites in 2010, and astronomers think there may be more—lots more.
"The satellites are part of the outer retrograde swarm of objects around Jupiter," said Scott Sheppard, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, D.C., who reported the discovery.
Retrograde satellites are moons that orbit "backward"—in the opposite direction of a planet's axial rotation. Including the two new moons, the Jupiter swarm features 52 known retrograde satellites, which are all relatively tiny.
"It is likely there are about a hundred satellites of this size" in the swarm, Sheppard said.
(Also see "Earth Had Two Moons, New Model Suggests.")
New Moons Are Likely Captured Bodies
Like most of Jupiter's other retrograde satellites, S/2011 J1 and J2 are also classified as irregular moons, because they orbit far from the planet and have highly eccentric and inclined orbits.
Due to their odd orbits, the moons are likely asteroid or comet pieces that were long ago captured by Jupiter's gravity rather than developing in place during the formation of the planet itself.
(Related: "Jupiter Turned Comet Into Moon for 12 Years.")
"Because these outer irregular satellites were captured during the solar system's early years, they can give us insight into the planet's formation and evolution process," Sheppard added.
As far as more imaginative names are concerned, that will require more time and more data.
By established convention, satellites in the Jovian system are named for lovers and descendants of the Roman god Jupiter or his Greek counterpart, Zeus.
But "satellites in general are not given Roman or Greek mythological names until they have at least one year of observations," Sheppard said.
The new Jupiter moons were announced this week in the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.
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ceremony before ngaben
Ngaben is not as simple as you think, because it is traditional ceremony which is inherited by their ancestor. Generally there are some ceremonies that are made by the family. One of them is bathing for the body, all of the family gather with community member when they held the ceremony. The body is put in special place and all of the family member wash the body. The purpose to clean the body for the last time and show the love from the family. Usually many family members give something to the body such as clothes, sandals, jewelry, and some money. They give all of the things because they hope the soul have something to bring to the heaven. After the ceremony has done, the body is laid down again on the pavilion. Continue to the next ceremony is separate the relationship among the soul and his family members. This ceremony is quite unique because many family members cry as they feel sorry to the soul and they will not see him anymore. That is the last ceremony before ngaben ceremony that will be held in the graveyard
Special ceremony for someone who died before had tooth filling ceremony
Commonly someone who had ngaben ceremony already had tooth filling ceremony when he was alive. What is tooth filling ceremony? Tooth filling ceremony is a ceremony in Balinese Hindu special for teenager. This ceremony aims to reduce the bad behavior. What will happen if someone died before he hasn’t got tooth filling ceremony? He must get it before ngaben ceremony. Tooth filling ceremony is parents’ responsible and they have to prepare all of the offerings and the preparation. After tooth filling has done for the body then continue to the next ceremony such as bathing for the body and also ceremony to separate the soul with the family. Next day ngaben ceremony will be held base on good day has been chosen by the priest.
what is ngaben?
In the way of death, there is no definite provision against a person, no favoritism, no difference was rich or poor, everything will go towards the future in accordance with the will of the time of death. So, death is a necessity of human life which each tribe and customs have their own ordinances to give her last homage as a human being who has a cultural civilization.
Hinduism is a religion that affect the formation of ritual cremation in Bali. But the cremation is different from India's culture. Ngaben ceremony this is one of the main ceremony for the Balinese people, so Ngaben an obligatory ritual performed when someone dies. Balinese people think that death means the relationship with the real world has been broken, he said to go back to heaven or to the netherworld. God, the creator of births and deaths are authorized to determine the status of the age limit, which can not be predicted by humans, the exact time when someone passed away into the afterlife.
Ngaben derived from the word Beya. Beya means the provision, which is a type upakara required in the cremation ceremony. Beya word which means lunch, then in the Indonesian language to be charged or prabeya in bali. People who hold Beya in bali called meyanin. Ngaben said, meyanin, has become the standard language, to name but sawa wedhana ceremony. So really no longer need to be debated origin of that word. What is clear is cremation or meyanin solemnization to sawa for people who have died.
So not too long hindered the departure of Atma, rough body needs to speed up the process of the return ceremony, to its source in nature, namely Panca mahabhuta. Similarly, for the Atman it need a ceremony to go into nature pitra and decided attachment to the body ballpark. This process is called Ngaben. If the ceremony Ngaben not implemented within a period of time, the body would be roughly germs, called bhuta cuwil, so atma will get hell.
This picture shows a priests gave banten over the corpse before it was burned
