BARONG DANCE
Barong is one
of the most famous dances. Which tells the struggle between good and evil. The
core story is taken from the Barong dance puppet story of India is the largest
Hindu Mahabharata. In the story is told, one of the fives Pandavas (5 family),
namely Sahadeva, will be sacrificed by her mother (goddess Kunthi) to be
offered to the goddess Durga (Shiva wife has a creepy face) but the time
sacrificed Goddess Kunthi feel very sad and not willingly sacrificed his son
and he wanted to cancel. Therefore cunning Goddess Durga finally Kunthi
instantly changed his mind and became very angry with Sahadeva, and finally
Sahadeva tied under a tree, waiting for the right time for courtesy, that’s when
it comes Vishnu gives grace to Sahadeva that makes him invincible, and it’s
time to kill the Goddess Durga down Sahadeva, but they are not able to do.
Eventually even the Goddess Durga asked Sahadeva to kill himself (Goddess
Durga) so she can go back to heaven.
After he was
killed, came Kalika (pupil Goddess Durga) and try to kill Sahadeva, but Kalika
lost and transformed into a wild boar, because hunted by the people then he
transformed again into birds axis (a large bird) and then beat Sahadeva again.
Again Kalika lost and transform into a form of Goddess Durga with Rangda, at
that time transformed into a Barong Sahadeva and fought with Kalika. In this
fight no one wins or loses.
The dance ended with
a dagger dance, played by some of the men who tried to stab himself with a
dagger but none of them were injured because their bodies have been infiltrated
by supernatural powers. That briefly the story of the barong dance. For more details
please a time to yourself to watch this dance if a holiday to Bali
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