美食祈祷与恋爱意大利文化 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 81 (185):巴厘岛诊所

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 81 (185):巴厘岛诊所  

This is a good start . . . but is there no more information than that? A Thursday in what month? In what year? No telling. Anyway
the day of the week that you were born is more important in Bali than the year
which is why
even though Ketut doesn't know how old he is
he was able to tell me that the patron god of children born on Thursdays is Shiva the Destroyer
and that the day has o guiding animal spirits—the lion and the tiger. The official tree of children born on Thursday is the banyan. The official bird is the peacock. A person born on Thursday is always talking first
interrupting everyone else
can be a little aggressive
tends to be handsome ("a playboy or playgirl
" in Ketut's words) but has a decent overall character
with an excellent memory and a desire to help other people.
When his Balinese patients e to Ketut with serious health or economic or relationship problems
he always asks on which day of the week they were born
in order to concoct the correct prayers and medicines to help them. Because sometimes
Ketut says
"people are sick in the birthday
" and they need a little astrological adjustment in order to set them in bal-ance again. A local family brought their youngest son to see Ketut the other day. The child was maybe four years old. I asked what the problem was and Ketut translated that the family was concerned about "problems with very aggressive this boy. This boy not take orders. Bad behave. Not pay attention. Everyone in house tired from the boy. Also
sometimes this boy too dizzy."
Ketut asked the parents if he could hold the child for a moment. They put their son in Ketut's lap and the boy leaned back against the old medicine man's chest
relaxed and unafraid. Ketut held him tenderly
placed a palm on the child's forehead
shut his eyes. He then placed a palm on the boy's belly
shut his eyes again. He was smiling and speaking gently to the child the whole time. The examination was quickly over. Ketut handed the boy back to his parents
and the people left soon after with a prescription and some holy water. Ketut told me he'd asked the parents about the circumstances of the boy's birth and had discovered the child had been born under a bad star and on a Saturday—a day of birth which contains elements of potentially bad spirits
like crow spirit
owl spirit
rooster spirit (this is what makes the child a fighter) and puppet spirit (this is what's causing his dizziness). But it was not all bad news. Being born on Saturday
the boy's body also contained rainbow spirit and butterfly spirit
and these could be strengthened. A series of offerings would have to be made and the child would be brought into balance once more.
赖爷问父母能否抱孩子一会儿。他们把自己的儿子放在赖爷的大腿上，男孩向后靠在老药师的胸膛上，轻松悠闲，毫不怕羞。赖爷温柔地抱着他，一只手掌搁在男孩的额头，让他闭上眼睛。而后一只手掌放在男孩的肚子上，再一次让他闭上眼睛。他从头到尾对男孩微笑、轻声说话。检查很快结束。赖爷把男孩交还给父母，而后一家人带着处方和圣水离去。赖爷跟我说他问了孩子的父母有关男孩的出生状况，发现这孩子在邪星之日出生，而且是礼拜六——在这天出生，会有邪恶鬼魂的干扰因素，比方乌鸦鬼魂、猫头鹰鬼魂、公鸡鬼魂（使这孩子好斗）、玩偶鬼魂（造成他的晕眩）。但并非都是坏消息。在礼拜六出生，男孩的身体也包含彩虹魂魄和蝴蝶魂魄，可予以强化，必须举行一系列奉献仪式，才能使孩子再次平衡。