kärl, skål, cawan

Offerskål på låg fot, av brons. Skålen är odekorerad.

Enligt generalkatalogen används skålen i templen för gult krossat ris, widje, och kallas tjawan. Widje och tjawan skrives wija och cawan i modern stavning. Cawan är en kopp eller skål utan handtag. Termen wija har inte verifierats.

"Rice is furhter classified as ketan, if it is sticky, glutinious rice, injin if it is black, and barak if it is red. These are the only colors of rice that grow in Bali. But white, red, and black represent only three of the four sacred colors-yellow is missing. The story is that Siwa, God as dissolver of life, brought rice of the four sacred colors, but the manifestation Batara Wisnu Sangwerti ate all but a little of the yellow rice. Wisnu planted what was left under the eaves of his house, and it grew into the turmeric plant, which the Balinese call kunyit. When Balinese need yellow rice, as they do for many offerings, they have to dye the white rice yellow, kuning, using turmeric. Yellow rice is most important in offerings to be given on the day Kuningan." (Eiseman, F. B. 1992. Del II. s.285)

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