Kaja represents the higher world, where ancestors live. This is understood to be the mountains and sky. Bali largely consists of one large volcano, Gunung Agung (“main mountain”), which rises out of the sea.This cosmological arrangement means that the inland direction, pointing to the volcano, is Kaja, and is associated with ancestor spirits and purity in general.In contrast, Kelod represents impurity and negativity. This is the opposite of Kaja, and is associated with lower elevations and the sea.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.