Feet — grounded efficacy

contact, stance, and performed presence

The feet provide a grounded endpoint for an embodied performance or ritual act, contrasting the abstract idea of inspired potency with practical stance and movement. This is a visual grounding convention rather than a claim that taksu has a canonical foot endpoint.

Crown — taksu entryHeart — taksu presenceHands — taksu enactmentFeet — grounded efficacyFeet — grounded efficacy

Point 4 of 4 in Balinese Taksu

Cross-tradition overlaps

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Sources

Fred B. Eiseman Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Volume I (scholarly_modern)

J. Stephen Lansing, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali (scholarly_modern)

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