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Bali, Indone? Jul?995

E?ation / Inhalation

or : Ca?ng a Whiff of Cremation<o?/B> ?icking a? exh?ion ? the kid?FONT>

We ?d in the bone ya?nd watch them dig up their
ances?. The men take t? digging. Some do it
because it'?eir brother, father or mothe??here. Some do it for the coins tfind in ?eye
?ets of the dead.

When the shrouded corp??earthed, a f??
yelling sta?? is intended to ? off the evil
spirit?hen ?its are ?ed on the pu??
cor??eodo? it.

The men wa?he flesh off the half-decomposed cor?.

The kids ? an ice cream from the vendo? the gra? After the corpse is washed it i?apped in clo?nd b?ht to the funeral py?
Twenty-??er-mache bulls a?aiting to be set
ablaze.Facsimiles of well-endowed b? have been
const?ed for the dead men, who will make u? the
afterlife for what ? may have mi? in ???fe.

Women get a?ntation of a cow, comple?ith a
me?lously embroidered yoni.

Many cremations in Bali ?e da????mbolic.
But ?e funerals u?eal corp? and flame throwers
are needed to incine? the decompo? material.

A mo??imbs up lm t?next to a funeral py??nging a gasoline-filled oil drum to a fuel line
leading ?he kindling. Twenty-?oil drum?ng five
mete?bove the bla?.. Seemed like a good time to go
fetch l?.

When ?eturn wi?ake-out from Nasi Campor, the py?are blazing. Men stand a?d smokinove ciga?es and
poking the bu?g logs, or moving an arm into the
inferno, rolling a head on?he ember?The ?e is thick. It fills our lungs, flavoring ou?nch. When we ret???ooftop home, we ? the
smoky film of dead fluids f?our bodies.We all go to
?? the same bed, h?ed ther ?eel each
other's warm flesh and ?ing hear?
YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW LONG THEY LEAVE THEM IN THE GROUND
BEFORE THEY DIG EM UP

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