Daytime Shadow Plays and Sexy Dancers

February 19, 2002

I Gde Anis, 43, recites a mantra over holy water. The amerta, stolen by the evil raksasas, is back in his hands. Gde Anis, a dalang from the village of Pujungan, had just completed the one-hour shadow play Tirtha Amerta. Once upon a time, according to that lore, the raksasas stole the holy water. To get back the amerta, the deity Batara Vishnu disguised himself as an angel. The raksasas, seeing an apparition of a beautiful woman, fought one

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