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SILENT DAY ( NYEPI DAY) AT CEMPAGA VILLAGE

Silent day ( Nyepi day) has been celebrating by all Hindu's people around the world. Specially in Bali island was celebrating by unique tradition with Ogoh- Ogoh performance. Ogoh - Ogoh is symbolize of devil or giant, deep meaning is bad character of our personal respective.All these character should be removed on Nyepi day until forever.
In Cempaga Village has 2 x times of Silend day ( Nyepi day). Once is General Silent Day held on every March  and second is Special Silent Day applies only in Cempaga Village area. 

Second silent day (Nyepi)  is very sacred ceremonies, on day before Silent ( Nyepi ) all village people do ceremonies in our Big village Temple in Centre of Village,all people come and do mutual cooperation into temple until all of equipment ceremony are ready.
 In Afternoon all people are ready to go to the beach while bringing all equipment ceremonies from the temple  accompanied by sacred special music of cempaga temple.
They walked until the beach then praying on beach temple, early morning they are back to the village and started to celebrated Silent Day ( Nyepi) around the village only. Four activity could not doing during Silent days are : Not light a fire, not working, not listening music or watching television and not Traveling. Silent day has finished early morning when sunrise, all people back to normal activity.

Here some picture before Silent day, when people doing cleansing ceremonies ( Pecaruan) in Cempaga Village accompanied by traditional  Music Of Bleganjur. ( SATRIA JAYA - DUSUN COROT- DESA CEMPAGA)