Then spirits are poured on the putrifying corpse to deodorize it. The men wash the flesh off the half-decomposed corpses. The kids want an ice cream from the vendor at the grave side. After the corpse is washed it is wrapped in cloth and brought to the funeral pyre. Facsimiles of well-endowed bulls have been constructed for the dead men, who will make up in the afterlife for what they may have missed in their sex life.
Women get a representation of a cow, complete with a meticulously embroidered yoni.
Many cremations in Bali these days are purely symbolic. But these funerals use real corpses, and flame throwers are needed to incinerate the decomposing material. A mourner climbs up a palm tree next to a funeral pyre, stringing a gasoline-filled oil drum to a fuel line leading to the kindling. Seemed like a good time to go fetch lunch. When we return with take-out from Nasi Campor, the pyres are blazing.