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Balinese villagers stab ceremonial daggers into their chests - PHOTO+VIDEO

Balinese villagers stab ceremonial daggers into their chests - PHOTO+VIDEO
17.09.2014 09:30
Raw, unbridled passion marks the annual Ngusaba Puseh ceremony, in which residents of Selumbung village in Bali's Karangasem District celebrate their lost ancestors and show gratitude to their deity.

Men parade with ceremonial daggers, called 'keris', dance and chant among their huts in a jungle setting filled with a sea of aromatic smoke from fires fulled by - among other things - coconut shells. All in attendance, both men and women, are in a mesmerising trance during the September 11 ceremony.Some men are seen so deep in the state they are able to stab the keris into their own chests without so much as a whimper, while priests prepare offerings to their deities and those local who are no longer with them.  Selumbung has a population of about 3,000 residents and is found in the sparsely populated east of Bali, where laid-back coastal villages can be found far from party central Kuta in the south.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az

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