Here's a snapshot of Melasti Day on Sindhu and Segara Beaches in SANUR. Watch as the people of Bali come together for the Melasti purification ceremonies and Ogoh Ogoh parades through the streets.
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Thanks to Debbie Hermans for still photos of Ogoh Ogoh.
The Melasti ceremony is also known as Melis or Mekiis, and is usually held three days before Nyepi Day. Locals observe Melasti on the first new moon in March. During Melasti, villagers organise a parade carrying all the sacred objects from their temple to a nearby lake or holy spring.
Ogoh-ogoh are statues built for the Ngrupuk parade, which takes place on the eve of Nyepi day in Bali, Indonesia. Ogoh-ogoh normally take the form of mythological beings, mostly demons.
The main purpose of the making of Ogoh-ogoh is the purification of the natural environment of any spiritual pollutants emitted from the activities of living beings (especially humans).
Explanations of Melasti and Ogoh Ogoh taken from Wiki-pedia
27 мар 2023
