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Candidasa, a black sand
beach, is a major destination
of the tourists, highly suitable
for water sports such as
swimming, snorkeling, diving.
Candidasa is one of the tourist
area that developed starting in
1983. At first the name
Candidasa is the name of a
temple, the Temple
Candidasa, located on a small
hill and was built in the 12th
century
One story that became a myth
about the existence of a growing
Candidasa temple and is
believed by local people is a
statue of Goddess Hariti located
in a niche at the bottom of the
cliff of the hill. It is said that
Goddess Hariti narrated in the
beginning was a Yaksa in
Buddhism who love to eat the
flesh of children. But after getting
enlightenment teachings of
Buddhism, the goddess and then
repent and turn to protective and
loving children.Heliconia Stricta Shronii
Heliconia Rostrata
The name of Candidasa is
from the word candi and
dasa, candi mean temple
and dasa mean ten,
Goddess statue Hariti
portrayed as a goddess is
surrounded by 10 children,
as a characteristic, a loving
protector, and also as a
symbol of fertility and
prosperity.
Local people believe that the
Goddess Hariti means the
mother of many people who
can give the gift of fertility
and prosperity. Therefore a
lot of places visited and
utilized by the husband –
wife who has not been
blessed with offspring to beg
supplication by bringing
offerings dedicated to the
Goddess Hariti
In Balinese culture, a man
and a woman is considered
to be complete when they
are unite to form a family that
worship common ancestors
in the family shrine of each
Balinese household.
Family ties are consequently
the most important factor in
Balinese life; a continuous
sequence relates the
individual to his family, to his
community, and to the total
of the Balinese people. A
Balinese woman who
marries Chinese, a Muslim,
or a foreigner ceases to be a
Balinese.
A Balinese feels that hi most
important duty is to marry as
soon as he comes of age
and to raise a family to
perpetuate his line.
Golden Torch (Heliconia psittacorum)
Heliconia Stricta Bucky
A bachelor is in Bali
abnormal, incomplete being
devoid of all social
significance since only
settled married men can
become the member of
banjar and village
association.
In Bali, Even the pedanda,
the high priest, must have a
son to continue his line
though it do not conform to
the ascetic abstention
favored by orthodox Hindus.
Thus, every Balinese centers
all his hopes in having
children, preferably male
children, who will look after
him in his old age, and most
important of all, sons who will
take the proper care of his
remains after he is dead,
performing the necessary
rites to liberate his soul for
reincarnation, so it will not
become an aimless
wandering ghost.
From temple relief, scripture
and folktales, they are familiar
with the fate awaits the
childless in hell, where a
woman who dies without
children is condemned to carry
a gigantic worm suckling at her
useless breast, and for the man
who fail to have a child his soul
is hung on a bamboo and the
trunk of that plant is constantly
bitten by the soul of people who
did not undergo a mesangih
(tooth filling) ritual.
A man who does not obtain
children from his wife has the
right to divorce her; or if she
dies or runs away, he remarries
as soon as possible. Often the
sterile wife will herself suggest
and even provide for a second
wife for her husband. There is
another alternative, they usually
meras (adopt) a child of
relatives.
For the Balinese people, the
placenta is also considered
a brother or sister to the
newborn and is quickly
removed and returned to the
family compound. It is then
cleaned by the father,
blessed with holy water,
wrapped in white cloth and
then buried in the grounds
under a rock. No one
outside the family will know
where it is buried to protect
the placenta from evil which
through black magic,
(believed in by the
Balinese), could then be
inflicted on the living child.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the
Candidasa area received a
large amount of investment
in tourism and a
construction boom.
To fuel the construction of
beach bungalows, new
homes and restaurants, the
offshore reef was mined for
lime to make cement and
other construction materials.
This removed the coastal
barrier that had protected
the beach which was
undermined and washed
away. Local hotel owners
constructed a series of t-
shaped groins jutting out
into the water in an attempt
to preserve the beach, with
mixed results.
Text : Internet
Pictures: Nicoleta Leu & Internet
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Sound: Gamelan Bamboo & Flute - Bulan Purnama
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