Gebogan - Traditional sesajen in Bali

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There are various forms of sesajen offering ingredients according to localities and its functions producing various nomenclatures. One of the forms frequently found in Bali has been what is popular among Balinese as gebogan or pajegan, looking out as a cone. Material components used to prepare it are mainly fruits so as to create beautiful offering composition in accordance to the functions and the kinds of rites differentiated in those aimed at being used in temple ritual known as Dewa Yadnya or just at home (Manusa Yadnya: wedding, cremation, etc.). Even much gebogan cones, made of flowers or young coconut leafs, function to decorate ceremonies in hotels.

Gebogan in general consists of various leafs, mainly carved and composed in such a way as to render it attractive lookout, while colorful flowers and fresh fruits or fruits processed in form of specific Balinese cakes. Even rice is certainly an essential component part of the gebogan.

Hindu adherents (in general those of Balinese community) do not miss to include visualization of upward looking roasted chicken within zest to glorify visualization of the gebogan as one of ritual implements of religious traits in this Island of Gods. Growing up to three meters, it would not quite easy to install gebogan, especially for those people not yet acquainted with the job. Skill and experience would be a needy prerequisite for such workers, who could not even neglect the importance played by the role of aesthetic character. Such deployment of personal capabilities has been a prerequisite in realizing a complex process of making a gebogan implement.

Such complexity of work of producing gebogan could clarify why the job deployment needs female fingers in general to express not merely spiritual quality in the work but also to herald its ethics, aesthetics, grounded philosophy, as it has been represented Desa Adat traditional village in Bali, inclusive the village supporters. Villages having affluent crop of fruits or flowers would have dominant show of fruits or flowers of all sorts, etc.

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