BARONG DANCE

 

     Barong is one of the most famous dance. Which tells the struggle between goof and evil The core story is taken from the Barong dance puppet story of is the largest Hindu Mahabharata In this story is told,
one of the five Pandavas (5 family, namely Sahadeva, will be sacrificed by her mother (goddess Kunthi) to be offered to the goddess Durga (shiva's wife has a creepy face) but the time sacrificed Goddess Kunthi feel very sad and
not willingly sacrificed his son and he wanted to cancel. therefore cunning goddess Durga finally Kunthi instantly changed his mind and became very angry with Sahadeva. and finally Sahadeva tied under a tree, waiting for the right time for courtesy. that's when it comes Vishnu gives grace to Sahadeva that makes him invincible. and it's time to kill the goddess Durga down Sahadeva, but they are not able to do. eventually even the goddess Durga asked Sahadeva to kill himself (Goddess Durga) so she can go back to heaven

     After he was killed, came Kalika (pupil Goddess Durga) and try to kill sahadewa. but kalika lost and trasformed into a wild boar, because hunted by the people then he transformed again into birds bird axis(a large bird) and beat sahadeva. again again kalika lost and transformed into a form of Goddess durga with Rangda. at that time transformed into a barong sahadeva and fought with kalika.in this kerkelahian no one wins or loses.

     The dance ended with a dagger dance, played by some of the men who tried to stab himself with a dagger but none of them were injured, because their bodies have been infiltrated by supernatural powers. That briefly the story of the barong dance for more details please time to yourself to watch this dance if a holiday to Bali