Dear All visitors
today we would like to inform you for those who need to see funeral ceremony in tana toraja in novembre 2018 :
6th - 8th of novembre 2018 : village of BEBO in toraja
7ht - 9th of novembre 2018 : village of Ariang Makale in toraja
8th - 9th of novembre 2018 : village of Karuang Nanggala in toraja
10th - 13 of novembre 2018 : village of Tandung la'bo in toraja
14th - 17th of novembre 2018 : village of Ba'tan in toraja
13th - 14th of novembre 2018 : village of mangke'pe labo in toraja
21th - 23th of novembre 2018 : village of Talung lipu Parinding in toraja
{source of information : The king of funeral ceremony informant by Mr Arru torajan Guide}
found out detail story about funeral ceremony, check this out as follow :
Funeral Ceremony In The Land of Toraja
Rambu Solo is a customary ceremony of the death of the Tana Toraja people which aims to honor and deliver the souls of the dead to the spiritual realm, that is to return to eternity with their ancestors in a resting place. This ceremony is often called a ceremony for the perfection of death because the deceased is considered dead only after the whole procession of the ceremony is fulfilled. If not, then the deceased is only considered a "sick" or "weak" person, so that he remains treated as a living person, that is laid in bed and given food and drink and even always talked to.
In Toraja society, funeral rites are the most important and costly rituals. The more wealthy and powerful someone, the cost of his funeral will be more expensive. In aluk religion, only noble families are entitled to hold large funeral parties. A noble funeral party is usually attended by thousands of people and lasts for several days. A funeral cemetery called rante is usually prepared on a vast meadow, as well as a mourner's presence, as well as a rice granary, and other funeral devices made by abandoned families. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and weeping are expressions of grief undertaken by the Toraja tribe but they do not apply to the burial of children, the poor, and the lower class.
The funeral ceremony is sometimes only held after weeks, months, even years since the death in question, with the aim that the abandoned family can raise enough money to cover the funeral expenses. The Toraja believe that death is not something that comes suddenly but is a gradual process leading to Puya (the world of spirits, or the hereafter). In the waiting period, the corpse was wrapped in several pieces of cloth and stored under tongkonan. The soul of the dead is believed to remain in the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which the spirit will travel to Puya.
The highlight of this solo Rambu ceremony was held in a special field. In this ceremony there are several series of rituals, such as the process of wrapping corpses, affixing ornaments of gold and silver threads to the coffin, dropping the corpse to the granary for burial, and the process of raising the corpse to the final resting place.
In addition, in this traditional ceremony there are various cultural attractions that are shown, including buffalo fights, buffalo-buffalo to be sacrificed in the first race before slaughter, and foot competition. There are also several staging music and some Toraja dances.
Another part of the cemetery is the slaughter of buffalo. The more powerful a person is, the more buffalos are slaughtered. The slaughter is done by using a machete. The carcass carcass, including its head, was lined up in the fields, waiting for its owner, who was in "sleep". The Toraja believe that the spirits need the buffalo to travel and will be faster in Puya if there are many buffaloes. The slaughter of dozens of buffaloes and hundreds of pigs is the culmination of a funeral ritual that is accompanied by music and dances of young men who catch splattered blood with long bamboo. Some of the meat was given to the guests and recorded because it would be considered a debt to the family of the deceased.
Buffalo slaughtered by slashing the neck of a buffalo with just a single slash, this is the hallmark of the Tana Toraja community. Buffalo to be slaughtered is not just an ordinary buffalo, but the buffalo Caucasian "Tedong Bonga" whose price ranges between 10 - 50 million per head.
There are three ways of funerals: The coffin can be stored in a cave, or in an ornate stone grave, or hung on a cliff. The rich are sometimes buried in carved stone tombs. The tomb is usually expensive and its manufacturing time is about a few months. In some areas, stone caves are used to keep the corpses of the entire family. The wooden statue called tau tau is usually placed in a cave and facing out. Coffins of babies or children are hung with ropes on the side of the cliff. The rope usually lasts for a year before decomposing and dropping the casket.
Types of Rambu Ceremony Solo
Based on the social status of the person or the economic level of the family being studied, the aluk rambu solo 'can be divided into 4 types, namely:
DiSilli ', the funeral ceremony for the lowest caste, the caste kua-kua or slave. This type of ceremony does not have animal slaughter as an offering and is divided into several forms, such as dedekan (burial ceremony by pounding the pig feeding container) and pasilamun tallo manuk (burial with chicken egg).
Put a bunch, a ceremony that lasts only one night. These include bai a'pa '(offering of four pigs), tedong tungga (one pig offering), in the contents (the funeral for a child who died before teething with a pig offering), and ma' tangke patomali (offerings of two pigs).
In the trunk or in the tedong doya, the ceremony for the tana casi casi '(middle royals) and tana' moon (high nobility). In addition to buffalo, this type of ceremony also presents pigs and chickens. The ceremony is usually held for 3-7 days in a row. At the end of the event, a sibuang (menhir) was created as a monument to honor the deceased.
Rapasan, a special ceremony for the tana 'moon (high nobility) held for 3 days and 3 nights. Including this type of ceremony, among others, diasan revelation (low-level feelings only meet the minimum requirement of 9-12 buffalo offerings), sundun (complete completion of 24 buffalo and pigs infinite), and the sweeping of broomsticks (symbolic rendering with presumed offerings 30 buffaloes).
Levels in the Rambu Ceremony Solo
These ceremonies are all religious ceremonies that offer pigs and buffaloes to ancestral spirits or to people who die like customary burial ceremonies, ma'nene ceremonies'. Ma'nene ceremony 'is a ceremony to cut a pig or a buffalo for a person who has been buried housed in a grave stone burial.
Death brings misfortune, the inner suffering of the abandoned family and not only that but the consequences of the solidarity of all family members and the religious and customary requirements that must be fulfilled in order for one's soul to be peaceful and safe to leave this perishable world into a peaceful world in Puya .
By giving any material sacrifices that are provided, family members feel that they fulfill their inevitable duties and responsibilities as long as the family members are still willing to follow the traditions of custom, religion, and family percentage in the eyes of people in the village.
Almost all the life of Toraja people is focused on the ceremony after death, but in performing the funeral ceremony in an adat and open manner, depending on position in society and ability of someone.
The levels of funeral services in aluk todolo:
Disilli: the simplest funeral ceremony. In the past, poor people from the slave level were often buried in a sad way, for example by simply equipping a corpse with a chicken egg, but now the average family bury the dead by cutting a pig. The funerary ceremony is a group of slave communities, especially to bury an immature child.
Children born and died are planted with their urih without religious ceremonies. Meanwhile, the child who died before his teeth grew, was put into a large wooden tree with a simple ceremony and without cloth bandages. This burial tree is called LIANG PIA or PASSILLIRAN. Both of these burial methods, apply to all golonga, both noble and lower class.
Fitted with Bongi. The burial ceremony of the dead whose show is only one night at home and only a buffalo is cut and a few pigs. This ceremony for parents of the lowest class or middle class who can not afford its economy.
Dipatallung Bongi. The burial ceremony lasts for three nights at home. Four buffaloes were cut and pigs were about ten. The second day, guests came to bring donations of pigs, palm wine, and tubers. Some places of rice should not be eaten in that place and all the immediate families have an obligation to abstain from eating rice during the ceremony and a few days after the ceremony. For three nights in a row - held ma'badong event.
Dipongimang Bongi. Funeral ceremony lasting five days and five nights. The third day is the day of reception. Guests or acquaintances have the opportunity to bring donations of tuak drinks, fruits, tubers, buffalo, cigarettes or sugar
Nine buffalo and dozens of pigs were cut. The statue of the deceased is made of bamboo. The statue is called TAU - TAU LAMPA. Tau - tau is decorated with traditional clothes but at the time of the day of burial, clothing and jewelry is taken back. Not all villages have a funeral like this. This funeral ceremony is the highest level ceremony.
On the last night there was a preparation for a special event called the MA'PARANDO event, where all the deceased grandchildren who had been girls, paraded in the evenings, sat on men's shoulders with jewelry of a dancer outfit consisting of gold jewelry and kandaure jewelry. They were taken around the house three times using torches. The audience praised the beauty of the girl, but the one who booed it. People who scoff are not scolded as long as they are within the limits of moral norms. Throughout the five nights always done ma'badong. All family members abstain from eating rice until the entire event is finished.
Bongi counted. The ceremony is 7 days 7 nights. Every night and every day there are buffalo and pigs. The nearest relatives eat no rice during the event. The reception day reception is more lively lots of pigs cut, buffalo 9 to 20 tails. The head of the buffalo is destined for tongkonan houses and buffalo meat given to guests and villagers.
Reached. The most expensive burial ceremony of the dead is mangrapai because it is twice preached before being buried. The first ceremony was held at tongkonan house and then rested one year, only the second ceremony was held. The first ceremony in the local language is called pia dialu. At the second ceremony, the dead were paraded with hundreds of people from tongkonan house to rante (the second ceremony). This ceremony is called ma'paolo / ma'pasonglo '. The dead are wrapped in red cloth covered with gold, followed by tau-tau and widow of the deceased in stretchers decorated with gold and accompanied by dozens of buffalo-tailed tail buffalo ready to pitted one on one. Upon arrival of the ante dir, the corpse was raised to a special tall building where the dead man (lakkian). Other events followed, such as buffalo fights, sisemba events, and dance events.
Dirapai is divided into three:
Rapasan wilt with the lowest target of twelve buffaloes.
Rapid shorts with a minimum target of 24 buffaloes being cut.
The union with the number of buffaloes cut at least 30 tails.
These three types of rapasans cut hundreds of pigs and dozens of expensive striped buffalo.
In the fragrance of sapurandanan, the cut buffalo consists of all the color of the fur except the color of the white buffalo (tedong bulan). Buffalo type and level of nilanya:
Tedong bulan (white buffalo), excluding the assessment.
Tedong sambao '(gray buffalo), rated the lowest.
Tedong todi ', a slight white color between the forehead and horns.
Tedong pangloli, white on the tip of the tail.
Tedong pudu ', in black.
Tedo bonga sori and kapila, colored stripes on the head.
Tedong bonga and saleko, colored stripes, the highest value.
In addition, the buffalo is judged from the goodness of his body and tenderness. Buffalo buffalo and buffalo sambo ra'tuk including the expensive. Balian is a castrated water buffalo and long horns. While buffalo sambo 'wavy white spots - spots all over the body
For Tana Toraja people, the dead do not automatically get the title of the dead. For them before the ceremony Rambu Solo 'then the person who died was considered a sick person. Because the status is still 'sick', then the person who died had to be treated and treated like a living person, such as accompanying him, providing food, drinks and cigarettes or betel. Things that are usually done by the spirit, must continue to run as usual.
While the use of music is Music flute, singing, song, poetry, weeping and lamenting is an expression of grief performed by Toraja tribe but all that does not apply to the funeral of children, the poor, and low class people. The funeral ceremony is sometimes only held after weeks, months, even years since the death in question, with the aim that the abandoned family can raise enough money to cover the funeral expenses in "sleep".
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