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BALINESE CEREMONY (MANUSIA YADNYA )

When a Balinese youth reaches adolescence they have to undergo one of the most important rites of passage: the tooth filing ceremony. Every Balinese teenager is obligated to go through it, no exceptions. The aim of the ceremony is to symbolically “cut down” on the six negative traits that are inherent in humans: lust, greed, wrath, pride, jealousy, and intoxication. Locally known as the mepandes or metatah ceremony the tooth filing ceremony is an essential ceremony in the life of a Balinese person. It comes from the belief that there is good and evil present in every person and the ceremony serves as a way to balance between good and evil. The Balinese believe that there are six negative traits that are present in every person. These are known as the Sad Ripu, which are similar to the Seven Deadly Sins in Christianity. Ripu here means “enemy”, as in “enemy of goodness”. They do this by symbolically filing the canines and the incisors, both on top and bottom. But before you get scared, they just lightly graze the teeth with a piece of bamboo, not literally cut them!