Makam Batu Tana Toraja

Makam Batu Tana Toraja

Toraja burial site was carved.In Toraja society, funerals are the most important rituals and expensive. The more wealthy and powerful person, then the cost of funeral services will be more expensive. In aluk religion, only the noble families who are entitled to hold a large funeral party. Feast of the funeral of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands of people and lasted for several days.

A place called rante funeral procession is usually prepared in a broad meadow, other than as a place of mourners in attendance, as well as a rice barn, and various other burial devices made by the family of the deceased. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and wailing is an expression of grief by the Toraja but all was not applicable to funerals of children, the poor, and low class people.

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A funeral was held after the new sometimes for weeks, months, even years since the death in question, with the aim that the family can collect enough money to cover funeral expenses. [24] Ethnic Toraja believe that death is not something come with a sudden but is a gradual process towards Puya (world spirit, or afterlife). In times of waiting, the corpse was wrapped with several pieces of cloth and kept under tongkonan. Spirits of the dead believed to remain in the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which the soul will travel to Puya.

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A tomb.Another part of the cemetery is the buffalo sacrifice. The more powerful person, the more buffalo are slaughtered. Slaughter is done by using a machete. Buffalo carcass, including head, lined up in the desert, waiting for his owner, who was in the "time asleep".

Toraja Tribe believes that the spirits need a buffalo to make the trip and will more quickly reach Puya if there is a lot of buffalo. Buffalo slaughter of tens and hundreds of pigs is the culmination of a funeral which lacks the music and dance that captures the young blood that spurt with a long bamboo. Some meat is given to the guests and noted because it will be considered as debt on the family of the deceased.

There are three ways a funeral: The coffin can be stored in the cave, or in a tomb carved stone, or hanging on the cliff. Rich people are sometimes buried in the cemetery of carved stone. The tomb is usually expensive and time it was created around a few months. In some areas, stone caves used to store the bodies of all family members. Wood sculpture called tau tau is usually placed in a cave and facing out. [27] The coffin infant or child with a rope hanging on the cliff side. Ropes are usually lasted for a year before the rot and make the casket fell.