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Galungan Day Comes With Its Glorious
2004-07-31
[Balibagus.com]
 Galungan Day will come on Wednesday Pon Dunggulan 11 August 2004 then everyone looks so busy to celebrate the major festival feast in the pawukon (Balinese Calender) cycle. Female and male, youth and adult have their own duty on this day. Taking place all over Bali for more then a week, the event celebrates the triumph of virtue (Dharma) over evil Adharma).
On this season, people can see Balinese run festival feast everywhere and almost everyday and Bali will look so colorful with its offering.
A week before Galungan Day, which is also called Sugian Tenten. The next day, on Thursday Wage (six days before the actual Galungan Day) people celebrate Sugian Jawa. On the following day, they celebrate Sugian Bali. Those three celebrations symbolize the process in purifying mind (Sugian Tenten), body (Sugian Jawa) and soul (Sugian Bali). Saturday and Sunday (the following days) are called the Embang Sugi (the time when people are concentrating on self-abilities).
|  Then, Monday Pon Dungulan (in the following week) is called Penyajaan Galungan (a symbol of asking for power from God). The next day, Tuesday Wage Dunggulan is called Penampahan Galungan, symbolizes the time when dharma or truth fights against adharma or evil. Penampahan means "slaughtering" the evil or bad spirits. This moment is visualized on Galungan Day as the symbol of the dharma victory against adharma.
During Galungan houses are decorated with penjor - long bamboo poles hung with offering, splendidly decorated with woven young coconut leaves, fruit, cakes and flowers. Everyone puts on their best attire.
This is Balinese Hindu culture at its most colourful and vibrant with all sorts of festivals held during the Galungan period. Incidentally, the wuku calendar is used in combination with the Hindu Saka Calendar and the Western calendar. Festival dates are decided via a complex-sounding system of 10 different types of weeks between 1 and 10 days long. So the 'annual' Galungan festival can sometimes take place twice a year.
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