During this ten day period all the gods, including the supreme deity Sanghyang Widi, come down to earth for the festivies. Barongs prance from temple to temple and village to village. The last and most important day of the ten day festival is called Kuningan. H indu saka calendar is a lunar cycle that more closely follows our own year in terms of the length of the year. Nyepi is a major festival of the saka year, it's the last day of the year, the day after the new moon on the ninth month.
C ertain major temples celebrate their festivals by the saka rather than the wuku calendar.
This makes the actual date difficult to determine from our calendar since the lunar saka does not follow a fixed number of days like the wuku calendar. The full moons around the end of September to the beginning of October or from early to mid-April are often the times for important temple festivals. F estival as an important feature of the Balinese life occurs on fixed dates according to the Balinese Calendar. Instead of temple festivals take place mostly in every 210 days or every six months. There are annual cycle and every six months celebrations of holidays, life-cycle ceremonies of a Balinese person since the time inside the mother's womb followed in stages up until marriage and the most important of the Balinese ritual is that includes funeral rites and cremation.