Kulantir
You were born in the wuku Kulantir, week 4 of 30 of the Balinese Pawukon.
Kulantir is the fourth of the thirty seven-day weeks (wuku) of the Pawukon, the 210-day cycle that sets most religious ceremonies in Bali. Balinese people mark their oton, the Pawukon anniversary of their birth, every 210 days on the same day of the cycle.
Source: F. B. Eiseman Jr., Bali: Sekala & Niskala, vol. I: Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art (Periplus 1990), ch. 17 “Balinese Calendars”, ch. 9 “Rites of Passage”; E. M. Reingold & N. Dershowitz, Calendrical Calculations, Ultimate ed. (Cambridge University Press 2018), ch. 12
- Position in the Pawukon
- Week 4 of 30
- Title of God in this wuku
- In the Balinese lontar Tutur Gong Besi, God (Bhatara Dalem) bears the title Sanghyang Langsur during this wuku. The Javanese list recorded by Raffles (1817) gives Puru Senkara instead.
Source: Tutur Gong Besi, ed. Dinas Kebudayaan Provinsi Bali (2002), quoted in K. Subagiasta, “Nilai-Nilai Agama Hindu dalam Tutur Gong Besi”, Warta Hindu Dharma no. 474 (PHDI, July 2006); T. S. Raffles, The History of Java, vol. I (London 1817), ch. VIII
In the Tutur Gong Besi
- Tree
- tingas
- Bird
- slinditan (Loriculus)
- Kala of the wuku
- The kala of this wuku stays below: do not work the earth or come down from a mountain.
Source: Tutur Gong Besi, lontar, transliteration (alih aksara), Pusat Dokumentasi Dinas Kebudayaan Provinsi Bali, “Nihan paukonan”; R. A. Putri, V. I. Ekowati & G. N. Dwiadmojo, “Avian diversity and ethnoornithology in Pawukon”, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 22 (2026), art. 43, Table 1
Like a hanging fruit: now happy, now sad. They know how to seek and how to win the hearts of others; not given to anger, large-hearted, with great gains in the end. But their goods run out quickly and they cannot save, and wherever they go they meet difficulties, even when their superiors love them. Their tree, the tingas, can be neither shelter nor resting place. The danger: a fall while climbing.
Our translation from: Tutur Gong Besi, lontar, transliteration (alih aksara), Pusat Dokumentasi Dinas Kebudayaan Provinsi Bali, “Nyan awatekan anut ring uku”, “Nihan paukonan”
Holy days in this wuku
On Tuesday (Kliwon) of Kulantir, Mahadewa, lord of the mountain Gunung Agung, is worshipped at his shrine in the house temple.
Source: R. Goris, “Holidays and Holy Days”, in J. L. Swellengrebel (ed.), Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual (W. van Hoeve 1960)
Notable days in this wuku
- Tuesday: Anggara Kasih · Kajeng Kliwon
These are the days when two of the Pawukon’s weeks meet: Kajeng Kliwon every 15 days, the other five every 35. They call for special offerings and prayers — some are held to be good days, some bad — and temple festivals and rites of passage are often set on them. On Kajeng Kliwon evil spirits are believed to be about.
Source: F. B. Eiseman Jr., Bali: Sekala & Niskala, vol. I: Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art (Periplus 1990), ch. 17 “Balinese Calendars”; R. Goris, “Holidays and Holy Days”, in J. L. Swellengrebel (ed.), Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual (W. van Hoeve 1960); E. M. Reingold & N. Dershowitz, Calendrical Calculations, Ultimate ed. (Cambridge University Press 2018), ch. 12