Hundreds of Balinese men carry a platform of bamboo with a wooden sarcophagus in the shape of a giant white bull with gold-plated horns during a procession to a royal cremation ceremony in Ubud on the Indonesian island of Bali on Tuesday. The bull contained the body King Ida Dewa Agung, a member of the Peliatan royal family, who died of diabetes on Aug. 20, 2010, at the age of 71. The Jakarta Post reported almost 7,000 men from 30 hamlets took turns carrying the sarcophagus, a 25-metre-tall cremation tower called a bade, and a six-meter-tall dragon-shaped bridge called naga banda through the streets. The Hindu priest who presided over the ritual fired a sacred arrow into the bridge to release the king’s soul from the temptations of the material world. Later, the bull was engulfed in flames.