Topeng Sidha Karya: A Balinese Mask Dance - Yavanika

192 Kodi et al.punta: . . . Demon direction, to Banda Negara in Badung. [A woodenslit drum called a klung-klung warns of danger or a need to gather inBalinese villages. Here it is calling them to go Southwest from Besakih, adirection associated with demons and danger in Balinese thinking.]bondres wus: Neriti desa. [This southwest point of Balinese mandala ispresided over by the demonic god Rudra.]punta: Southwest.bondres wus: Down demon way to [s]eek a Brahman named . . .punta: Ida Sangkya.bondres wus: I’da Sunk-ya who made the ceremony drown. Ceremonysinker. Gotta find him. Undo the doodoo!punta: What did you say?bondres wus: To wrap ’er the mess take Sara’s money!punta: Wait, I’m starting to understand you! “To repair the mistakesof the ceremony!” Boy, it’s a real job to translate this guy!bondres wus: (Upset) ’Ou don’t know ’ow squeak normal language?punta: Don’t get offended! You just don’t speak like a regular dude.(To audience) Just look at him: you can’t tell if he’s even human!bondres wus: Criti-a-sizing a fiend is un-fiend-ly. [Misquoting theproverb “Criticizing a friend is unfriendly.” ] ’On’t squeak of uddersimperfections, since ’o one in the world is perfect!punta: I understand, “Don’t speak of other’s imperfections, since noone in the world is perfect.” [To audience] He has his kakawin [oldJavanese literature] proverbs down. But, if he were to recite kakawinfor a temple ceremony, we would have to lock up the microphoneto save ourselves brain pain.bondres wus: ’On’t be-little a little being. Room in this whirled forfools and sages. (To the audience) ’On’t ’ou know rwa bhineda, twoin odd position? Ugly and ’andsome? ’Ou know ’hat?punta: Oh! So now you lecture me on the two in opposition, like youwrote the book on the rwa bhineda, the philosophy of two in oppositionthat makes up the world! (To the audience) Well, maybe thereis no harm in letting him think himself handsome and smart, if itpleases him.bondres wus: So ’any people en route to Badung, I wanna go too!punta: Someone who looks like you? Wouldn’t it be better to justhide in the house?bondres wus: Not just ’andsome who inherit the earth, ugly owns ittoo! What is the difference? ’Andsome pay taxes, and ugly pay too!punta: No beauty in taxes anyway! Maybe you’re right, and it is timefor equal rights for the ugly and the nobodies.bondres wus: In Badung ask I’da Sunk-ya, make all right, rightfor all.