When during your holiday, have you seen an umbrella which decorated in Balinese Temple? It called Tedung or Pajeng. Tedung or Pajeng is one of Balinese Hindu ceremony equipment which was shaped like an umbrella and has many shapes, sizes, colors, functions.
Tedung or Pajeng was made by bamboo for the work frame, yarn, cotton cloth and wood for the pole. Every place in Bali has a difference style than each other. Undagi (Tedung maker) has a special skill to make it. Tedung or Pajeng is divided into 2 types, those are Tedung Agung and Tedung Robrob. Tedung Agung usually was decorated with a colorful cloth or normally called Ider-Ider on the edge of Tedung Agung. Tedung Robrob was decorated with a small ball made from wool yarn on the edge of Tedung Robrob.
The generally, every color of Tedung has meaning, like black or white (called by Poleng) is symbolized of harmonizing (Rwa Bineda), the black is symbolize of Wisnu God (God of maintenance the world), the red is the symbolize of Brahma God ( God of creator the world) and the white is symbolize of Siwa God ( God of destruction the world)
Tedung or Pajeng is not the normal umbrella, we cannot use it to protect us from rain, but it is the holy equipment.
When Balinese people conduct “Melasti’ (purification ceremony and ritual ), they use pajeng to protect God’s manifestation like Barong, Rangda or Pratima. But now, Tedung is used the decoration of hotel or restaurant and look more beautiful.
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