Story & Philosophies of Melaspas

There are many kind of traditional ceremonial in Bali which each of the village has they own way to implement the traditional ceremonial. The philosophies which contained the each of the ceremonial is to implementation the thanks to the almighty god Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, where the form by doing upakara has they own purpose with many kind of offering to the god in form of banten (offering). There some symbols are contained in the banten which the symbol has a meaning which are representative the purpose of each traditional ceremonial.

The melaspas, is one the Bali traditional ceremonial where the purpose to clean the negative element from the new site of building or land has great spirit of goodness soul which stays in the buioding which in Bali language “medaging or pedagingan” the purely soul goodness spirit.

There are great philosophies contained deep inside the melaspas traditional ceremonial. The melaspas which came from word “mala” which means bad or negative elements and”pas” means cleaned or to make purely so the word melaspas means to make something to be cleaned from the negative element so it become purely. The melaspas especially done to ceremonies the new building like : house, Merajan (temple / shrine, beside to clean the building from the negative element, the Melaspas also has purpose to giving the great spirit of soul to the building, so as the owner wil be protected from the negative elements.

As part of the opening ritual, the naturally elegant – compsny conduct Melaspas Ceremonial for the completion project construction of Three in One concept experience through its suites- Hotels-Villas. As part of our commitment in blending to the local culture of Bali, The Stone also believes in purification Melaspas ceremonial prior to its Grand Opening in November 2010numerous of ritual has been taking place, start from Ngeruak (Opening lad for construction), Mecaru (cleansing &purification), Tirta Yatra (visit to the mother temple in Bali) and finaly melaspas.

The Melaspas will be lead by the Hindu Highest Priest “Pedanda” continued with holy performance of Rejang Dewa (sacred dance to the Gods), Topeng Sidakarya (Mask) and Wayang (Puppet Shadow) along with Kidung Wargasari (chorus) describing the descendant of God and deities cheered by various offering of Gamelan music, songs, dance, foods, and other arts to receive their blessings.

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