Have you been to Bali ? and have you been seeing cars or motorbike dressed young palm leaves offering tied to their front grills and side mirrors ? This is a special sign telling you that the day you saw them was a special day called "Tumpek Landep".
"Tumpek Landep" day, devoted to Sang Hyang Pasupati, Lord of heirlooms, weapons and metal or iron tools for proper function and magical power. The special day is falled today Saturday, 17 January 2009. Balinese calendar call it, Saniscara Kliwon Wuku Landep. Based on local calendar count in 210 days, Tumpek Landep is one of other 5 Tumpek Daysandnbsp; - Landep, Uduh, Uye (Kandang), Kuningan and Wayang which is meaning :
- Tumpek Uduh respects living plants
- Tumpek Uye or also called Tumpek Kandang is a day paying homage to all animals and pets
- Tumpek Wayang is for respecting leather puppets used in portraying ancient tales
- Tumpek Kuningan is an all-purpose Tumpek day to give thanks for all the components of the physical universe – especially any items potentially overlooked on the other Tumpek days.

The celebration is held at every house compound and temple. Blessing all tools at home made of metal such as knife, kitchen equipments, garden tools and metallic parts of machinery, vehicles and also "krisses (wavy double-bladed daggers). The special offerings are made to sharpen the magical power on all of these implements.

Meaning and philosophies of Tumpek landep.

Tumpek landep is presented to honor all sharper thing which made from metal or iron like knife, keris, axe, harpoon, sword, bullet, gun, dagger, etc which uses to help our daily life to survival.
Tumpek is special Saturday falls every 35 days of total in 210 days calendar.
Landep means sharp. So it means Tumpek Landep is a ceremonial which purpose to ceremonies all the sharper thing especially made from metal or iron.

Spiritually Tumpek Landep is supposed to remind for the Balinese people to sharper all the "weapons of our lives. The main weavons of human is knowledge and understanding. While other days – such as Saraswati pay homage to knowledge, Tumpek Landep is a day for evaluation and retrospection on how well we have mastered that knowledge for the benefit of the world.

Accordingly, Tumpek Landep seeks to honor human skills and ingenuity and the tools and technology used in practicing those skills.