•Thus the water that flows down the mountainside is pure, and benefits the terraced rice fields.
•By the time the water has arrived at the sea it is less pure. In Bali, after cremations the ashes of the deceased are taken to the sea, after which the spirits of the ancestors are symbolically brought back up the mountain to reside from then on.
•In a Balinese village, the arrangement of temples (puras) will reflect this cosmology.