EKA DASA RUDRA
Eka Dasa Rudra is a series of processions, ceremonies, and sacrifices held every 100 years at Pura Besakih, the "mother temple" of Bali.
Unfortunately, this magnificent ceremony is also a painful memory for Balinese people:
On March 17, 1963, the Eka Dasa Rudra was under way when Agung catastrophically erupted and killed more than 1,500 people. Since the sacrifices were interrupted, the Eka Dasa Rudra was completed 16 years later, from late February to early May of 1979. Images of gods were carried 19 miles down the mountain to be washed in the sea. Entire villages gathered along the route.
It is estimated that more than 100,000 people participated in the ritual.
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