Bali

Mar 13

Today we were in Bali, a very different interesting island.

The dominant religion in Indonesia is Muslin, except for

the island of Bali. It is 90 % Hindu. Several years ago we

had a professor from Furman who was expert on many

religions. He gave several presentations on Hindu and I

never could understand it. I still can’t.

 

Our guide was Hindu

and he told us a lot about it. Polygamy is OK (He has only

one wife), there is a 4 piece caste system (he is lowest

level). After girls have first menstrual period they are

carried on a ? on shoulders of several men. They wear

their best dress.

At the mother temple we visited we saw many

worshippers bringing offerings to their god (gods)?

I won’t pretend to understand.

As we drove through several villages we saw

many, many shrines. Apparently there is at least

one per family and they are together because

they must face same direction. Some were much

more elaborate than others. I don’t know why

but maybe it was caste system.

As we have done several times in the past, we

stumbled on to a wedding.

Foster takes most of the pictures because I have

trouble seeing the pictures on the screen if

there is too much light. He took over 150

pictures here and they were some of the best

he has taken. Unfortunately I have none of the

villages and many shrines.