TOKYO-2017 Events / Other_EVN

Cleaning the world

  • Prize
    Silver in Events/Other
  • Photographer
    Ivan Tykhy

Melasti Ceremony is a one of the biggest Hindu religious ceremony to purify Bhuana Alit (small world) and Bhuana Agung (the universe). This ceremony is performed with a parade procession of Hindu people by bringing all the equipment ceremonies and the Symbols of Gods to the sea. At the beach Hindu followers making offerings to the Gods and traditional purification rituals. During the rituals, believers falling in trance and often losing their consciousness. The aim of the ceremony is to cleanse the world from all the filth of sin and bad karma.