Bali Map Calendar of Events Currency Converter . Three days of joyous preparations precede it, culminating in Melis.
Processions take temple artifacts to the sea or to springs to be purified.
There are cockfights and other sacrifices which are then displayed on the ground where evil spirits lurk, such as crossroads. Then, by flaming torch light, everyone turns out into the street to make a fearful din, clattering anything to hand, to frighten the weakened evil spirits away. It is also a time when celebrants offer their thanks to the great god, Sanghyang Widi Wasa. On the day before Galungan scores of domestic animals are slaughtered as sacrifices and for the feasts. Galungan is a time of particularly lavish offerings and celebrations at all temples and at family temples, during which the deities and ancestral spirits descend to earth to be honored.