There Was A Red Giant In My Home

When I got home from work yesterday, I was shocked. The road toward my house was suddenly jammed. The length was about three miles. Really crowded and crawling traffic. I had never found anything like this before. I was confused and busy finding out what was going on. I began to ask fellow motorists stuck in the traffic and I also called my family at home.

 Finally, after about fifteen minutes to find out, then I got the answer. Apparently there was an ogoh-ogoh parade conducted by Hindhus. And the plan was to bring this ogoh-ogoh to the Pura Segara, located at the naval complex in Kenjeran.

This giant statue was made of bamboo frame wrapped in paper and then painted red. It had the shape of a giant in the Hinduism story, completed with fangs, long nails, and long wavy hair to add the eerie appearance. While his eyes were bulging as if it had had to fall out. It only wore a square patterned sarong.

The height was four meters, weighing about five hundred pounds. During the journey, it was carried by about fifteen young men. Ogoh-ogoh was also accompanied by the typical musical instruments, namely Balinese Gamelan. To make it more lively, the head could be moved to the right and the left by one of them. Along the way, ogoh-ogoh attracted a lot of attention from the surrounding community.

There were little children crying in terror. They watched with a mixture of curiosity and fear. Some of the audience seemed to fall unconscious or possessed. They believed that the devil in the ogoh-ogoh rampage and attacked the audience for it felt annoyed. But most of them enjoyed the permormance of ogoh-ogoh. They also captured that rare event with their cameras or cell phone cameras.

The long march ended in front of Pura Segara around six in the evening. And the ogoh-ogoh were then burned as a symbol of effort to eliminate lust and anger before they underwent the ritual of fasting the next day. Only the participants of the ceremony that were Hindhu stayed at the yard of Pura Segara. While most of the audience had gone home. The traffic on the street was back to normal again.