Death Ceremony In Toraja

1. Ahmad Harakan
20090510081
International Relations

2. Death Ceremony In Toraja
• Death Ceremony in each area is
different. In Toraja, very festive and
funeral ceremonies take days, higher
cost in this procession sometimes
make family postpone this ceremony.
• The uncertainty of the mystery of life
after death, creating concerns about
the fate of the deceased in the
afterlife. In the highlands of Tana
Toraja, an effort to uncover the
mystery that has created a religious
procession that is so
complicated, complex, and takes a lot
of effort and cost. Toraja society with
a ceremony called Signs of Rambu
Solok. This ritual is a process of one's
burial .

3. Large family entourage and
corpse enter to rante
tongkonan, the last place
the deceased interred
After that, a funeral procession which is very
dangerous to do. Starting from agility, courage,
and encouragement of spiritual beliefs.
Sometimes, life must be at stake in this burial
process. all this is done with the belief that
ancestral spirits will be happy with all the
sacrifices that these difficult.

4. The corpse was taken to
lakkean, a special place
during the ceremony with
photo and various black and
red decor.

5. Pigs were brought to rante
to be cut and distributed.

6. Buffalo compate also
adds to a series of Buffalo Stripe (Tedong
ceremonies. People often bonga) that cost the
bet money on this bull least expensive 150
million rupiah also
fights attractions.
slaughtered

7. Buffalo
slaughtered by
standing and
with one blow The meat was thrown into
various corners of the wind
machete
direction, mark of respect
to the entire region
tongkonan.

8. Ma'badong, typical in
ceremonial dances Rambu
Solok, making the dancers
Drifting in the atmosphere of

9. Ma’bodong Video

10. A person is considered dead when it held the funeral
ceremony. However, if you have not done so someone
is still considered to be ill and placed on the southern
tip tongkonan, ie a row of traditional houses until the
execution of the death ceremony.

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