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Checkered Cloth
Black and white checkered poleng cloths appear everywhere on Bali, especially as a covering for guardian statues in temples. The checkered pattern symbolizes the changeable world, which is made up of pairs of opposites-night and day, good and evil, man and woman, positive and negative, yin and yang - the duality of earthly existence. Their use is to sanctify a tree, a weird-shaped stone, or a statue so it becomes an object of worship. The cloth is restricted to the lower deities and never would be wrapped around Shiva's shrine as high gods are considered to dwell beyond the temporal realm. |
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