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Cosmogony and Creation in Balinese Tradition
Hooykaas, C.. Ed(S): Hooykaas, C.
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Description for Cosmogony and Creation in Balinese Tradition
Paperback. Editor(s): Hooykaas, C. Series: Bibliotheca Indonesica. Num Pages: 186 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 302.
Life is stranger than fiction. Considerably so. Judge from this: The Javanese develop a feeling towards their afterbirth, wbich is not thrown away at birth in the heathenish Western way, but which gets a decent burial and has the name: ari-ari, younger brother (- sister) . I know of a Javanese schoolgirl who wTote in an essay: "How couldn't I have tender feelings towards the spot where my ari-ari lies buried?" The Balinese are in the happy position of having no less than four elder brothers (sisters). The 'concomitants of physical birth', being the amniotic fluid, the blood, the vernix ... Read more
Life is stranger than fiction. Considerably so. Judge from this: The Javanese develop a feeling towards their afterbirth, wbich is not thrown away at birth in the heathenish Western way, but which gets a decent burial and has the name: ari-ari, younger brother (- sister) . I know of a Javanese schoolgirl who wTote in an essay: "How couldn't I have tender feelings towards the spot where my ari-ari lies buried?" The Balinese are in the happy position of having no less than four elder brothers (sisters). The 'concomitants of physical birth', being the amniotic fluid, the blood, the vernix ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Series
Bibliotheca Indonesica
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401500425
SKU
V9789401500425
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