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The
number of Djaoeks seems, however, to be variable. I
once saw twenty by the roadside gathered round the mat
on which offerings were being made to a Barong. On another
occasion there were only three, who sauntered in turn
down the village street before ever the Wrong put in
an appearance; and did a series of lovely solos, each
polished face turning back before it left the dance
ground and gave way to another, to flick a last strange
fixed smile at the gamelan.
In the village of Taman Intaran in south Bali, which
delights in mystical interpretations, the Sandarans
are said to be butterflies which eat the flowers in
Indra's garden, the Djaoeks being the gardeners and
the Barong Indra. Certainly the Wrong seems to move
amongst them in a conciliatory way, rebuking the Djaoeks
for their harshness to the tender Sandarans; and their
reconciliation seems to be expressed by a mingling of
the two squares of dancers, who float away together
before the appearance of Rangda. In another beautiful
and elaborate prelude, where the abstract gardeners
were replaced by a king and two court attendants, a
definite drama was obviously being enacted, but even
the head of the sekaa Barong had no idea what the story
was. They had had it long ago from an other village,
and now its meaning was lost.
At Kepaon the four Sandarans did a long and delicate
dance, sinking low between bended knees or crouching
on outspread feet, while their
revolving
fans
traced
a pattern
on
the
ground.
They
would
meet
in
the
centre,
two
crouching,
two
continuing
to
wheel
and
poise;
or
one would weave a solitary design like a melody above
interwoven voices. There is a strange mingling of restlessness
and passivity in those immobile masks, which are never
still, as the fixed sweet smile darts to and fro; now
hidden by the bending flowers of the dancer's head dress,
now rapidly moving above the febrile body
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