The ogoh-ogoh are effigies built for the Ngrupuk parade on the eve of Nyepi that took place yesterday.
Ogoh-ogoh usually are fashioned after mythological beings or demons and they represent the Balinese people’s spiritual or temporal aims.
Often they also serve as social or political commentary. Hence this year they had an effigy of the sea god Baruna crushing a backhoe, the symbol of the unpopular move to reclaim Benefits oa Bay by some business interests.
What does it mean then when they have an ogoh-ogoh of that grotesque short-fingered demon Donald Trump? What manner of demon slouches toward Kuta Beach?
The ogoh-ogoh are usually burned at the end of the parade. Anyone with a photo of The Donald going up in flames?
(Thanks Adri for forwarding the photo).
Unspun 
Yikes! That representation of the Donald is truly terrifying! (Of course, some of us feel that the prospect of him becoming president of the USA is even more terrifying.) 🙂
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