IN THE ISLAND OF BALI. 1J9 



the fea, and dedicated to the tutelary god of that element.* 



The vulgar worlhip of the people differs widely from the religion of 



the Brakmans. I converfed with the latter on this fubjeft, who feemcd 

 to look down on the vulgar fuperdition with much contempt. With 

 the poDalace every fpot is fappofed to have its guardian deity, to 

 whom a temple is raifed. He ranks according to the extent or im- 

 portance of the place he protCif^s. Every na'ion on 5/// has its pecu- 

 liar tuUl-ary god ; fo has every village. The mountains, forefls, and 

 rivers are in the fame way imagined to have their refpedive guar- 

 dians. It is to thefe that the grofs worfliip of the common people is 

 cheifly addreifed, while the Brakma^is and thofe inftru8ed by them, 

 worlhip the gods of the Mindu Pantheon, 



Among thefe, Mahadeva or Siva is chiefly invoked. T\\& B^jUnefe 

 call him mo {1 frequently Prama Siva "The Lord Siva"; but he is 

 known to them by mofb of the many names and epithets beilowed on 

 him in the Hindu mythology. He is the fame deity fo familiar to the 

 converred natives of thefe iflands under the title o^ BaUragura. They 

 pain' him as an angry and powerful tyran*^; in this refpeft agreeing not 

 lefs with his character of defcroyer in the Hindu Triai, thm with the 

 attributes of the chief deiry of a barbarous people ever mifc' ievous and 

 mali'^nant. On yfi-z;^ where xh^ Hmdaffm which prevailed was, as now 

 on t^ny-, ©fthe fe61 ofSivA and of the herefey of Buddha, a great variety 

 of images of the peculiar objeds of the worfbip of thefe two fe8s are to 

 be met with, while one feldom fees any reli£ls of the images more im- 

 mediately conneded with the worfhip of Vishnct. The BaUneJe have 

 two great religious fedivals, each of which occurs twice a year, the one 

 fucceeding the other at an interval of ten days. The firfl in point of 



* within 10 yakU of the '.crBiil<", iher< w»s a cockopit, io wki'ch dicic were fuM loococka uady n»«iiei., 

 Tlic Baliitf/t jwe gttul cock Sghccn. 



