What it's ...TAJEN BALI (Cockfight Religious Ritual)

What it's ...TAJEN  ...(Religious Rituals or Gambling Activities)

In the life of society on the island of BALI, cockfight gambling are well known and quite popular with some people in some areas in Bali cockfight gambling known as Tajen,
Tajen is a tradition of cockfight gambling conducted by putting spurs, ie a small blade attached at the foot of two roosters are pitted as a weapon to kill his opponent

In the beginning "Tajen" is part of religious rituals or tabuh rah sata take place in the Balinese Hindu community. Which of these tabu rah requires a trickle of blood as a symbol / terms cleanse mankind from greed / greed of materialistic values and worldly. Tabuh rah is also significant as a blind ritual Yadnya which blood drips to the earth symbolized mankind requests to Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa to avoid distress.

In Yadnya ceremonies in Hindu-Balinese known matatabuhan or matabuh term, namely, the process of sowing the five colors of liquid. Five colors are: white symbolized by the wine, yellow symbolized by the wine, which is symbolized by berem black, red symbolized by the sprinkling of animal blood, and the last Brumbun namely by mixing the four colors. Five liquid which is symbolized by white blood, stomach glands that are yellow, red blood, black bile glands and water as a symbol of all colors or Brumbun. Where the five are to be kept balanced.

In line with the dynamics of social life of the people of Bali, has been movement in the meaning of the ritual and the tabuh rah, tabuh rah in which meaning has been manipulated or take place sata and diterminologikan as Tajen. Yet when examined, red drum and tajen is a different sense, but in reality red drum used shields to hold tajen.

Even tajen also been viewed by society as one form of entertainment and game separately eliminate boredom and physical fatigue after heavy activity.

Although from the point of religion, especially Hinduism, in the holy books there is no one ayatpun Wedha that justify the existence of various forms and types of gambling activities