ngaben ceremony, Bali.
When someone die, they can either be cremated immediately (within a few weeks) or buried first and cremated later. As funerary rites are rather expensive, families can bury their dead and wait months, even year before cremating them.
If the body is to be buried , the body is first ritually washed, taken to the cemetery and buried with rather simple offerings. When the circumstances are right, then the cremation will take place. Final prayers are said, sound offerings of song are made, incense is lit and finally the pyre set alight. The bull goes up quickly in flames and then the tower is burnt
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