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Offerings, Brinkgreve, Stuart, Fox, 1996, Image Network Indonesia
Women with towering, highly built-up offers, made up of fruits, cakes, and flowers on their head, are walking through the streets on their way to the temple on full moon days.
Little woven palm leaf offering with flowers appear daily on crossroads and in all corners of the house and on automobiles. On special holidays the streets are lined up with delicately arching bamboo poles, decorated with ornaments.
These offerings are a unique art form, given to the gods and spirits just once and then thrown away. The unique nature of the ingredients (sometimes candy and cigarettes) and the intention of the makers make them even more special.
Offerings lie at the heart of the religion of the Balinese and so at the culture as a whole. It shows outsiders the enormous variety and creativity of the Balinese offerings; beautiful delicate figurines and patterns of palm leaf, lamak, stunning shapes and colors of family offerings.
The fruits of the earth are transformed into beautiful objects to be presented to the gods and the spirits. These daily ritual offerings and decorations at temple festivals, define the cosmic symbolism, that underlines them all.
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