Sacred Dance Named Sanghyang Jaran

Sacred Dance Named Sanghyang Jaran
Bali Island has a variety of body types of arts, from performance art to art that is sacred

Denpasar: Bali Island has a variety of body types of arts, from performance art to art that is sacred. One type of sacred art is a dance held Sanghyang Jaran, as shown in Denpasar, recently.

The dance attractions Sanghyang Rarely, some men seen kicking coconut shell charcoal fire in the middle of the arena. Not only was kicked, the hot embers are also being trampled to be taken by hand.

All the male dancers who perform in unconscious condition, possessed the spirit of horse or horses. They're running, stepping or playing embers with bare feet and hands. Despite the very hot coals, not a single dancer who suffered burns.

When dancing, dancers accompanied ballad The Hyangjaran and gamelan. This dance begins with the ritual nusdus, ie medium purification ceremony with smoke and fire. The next process is masolah, where the dancers are already possessed by the spirit of the horse began to dance.

The last series of the show is ngalinggihang, namely to restore consciousness pervading spirit removing dancers and the dancers return to their home. In this process all the dancers sprinkled with holy water or tirta.

Dancing the sacred dance Hyangjaran classified as held only at certain moments, like when an outbreak of disease. For the Hindu community in Bali, dance is believed to resist various kinds of evil spirits until the outbreak of disease.