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Funeral
In Toraja society, the funeral service is the most important ritual and costly. The more rich and powerful man, then the cost of the funeral service will be more expensive. In religion aluk, only noble families who are entitled to hold a big funeral feast. Funeral party a royalty is typically attended by hundreds of people and lasted several days. A funeral procession place called Rante is usually prepared in a prairie, as well as the mourners in attendance, as well as a granary, and the various other funeral devices made by the family of the deceased. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and wailing is an expression of condolence carried out by the Toraja, but it does not apply to funeral children, the poor and the lower class.
The funeral ceremony recently held occasionally after weeks, months, even years since death is concerned, with the aim that the bereaved family can collect enough money to cover funeral expenses. Toraja people believe that death is not something that comes suddenly but it is a gradual process toward Puya (the spirit world, or the afterlife). In the waiting period, the body is wrapped with a few strands 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 spirits will travel to Puya.
Another part of the cemetery is the slaughter of the buffalo. The more powerful a person the more buffalo were slaughtered. Slaughtering is done by using a machete. Buffalo carcass, including its head, lined up on the field, waiting for the owner, who was in the "sleeping period". Toraja people believe that spirits need a buffalo to make the journey and will be faster until at Puya if there is a lot of buffalo. Slaughter dozens of buffaloes and hundreds of pigs is the culmination funeral dance music blaring and young men who catch spurting blood with a long bamboo. Most of the meat is given to the guests and noted because it will be considered as owed to the family of the deceased.
There are three ways cemetery: Coffins can be stored in a cave, or in the tomb of carved stone, or hung on the cliff. Wealthy people sometimes buried in the tomb of carved stone. The tomb is usually expensive and time it was created around a few months. In some areas, the rock caves used to save the bodies of all family members. Wood sculpture called tau tau are usually placed in the cave and facing outward. Coffins babies or children are hung with rope on the cliff side. The rope usually last for a year before making his trunk rot and fall.
Music and Dance
Toraja tribal dance is usually done on several occasions, mostly in the funeral. They dance to grief, and to honor the spirits of the deceased as well as encourage the spirits will live a long journey to the afterlife. First of all, a group of men formed a circle and sang all night in honor of the deceased (the ritual called Ma'badong). The ritual is considered as the most important component of a funeral ceremony. On the second day of the funeral, soldiers dance Ma'randing shown to commend the courage of the deceased during his lifetime. Some men do a dance with sword, shield of buffalo leather, buffalo horn helmets, and various other ornaments.
Ma'randing dance procession started when the bodies were brought from granary to the Rante, where the funeral. During the ceremony, the women do Ma'katia dance, singing and dressed in feathered dress. Ma'akatia dance aims to remind the audience on the generosity and loyalty of the deceased. After the slaughter of the buffalo and pigs, a group of boys and girls ovation perform a cheerful dance called Ma'dondan.
Toraja singing and dancing during the harvest season. Ma'bugi dance performed to celebrate Thanksgiving and dance Ma'gandangi displayed when the Toraja was pounding rice There are some dances of war, for example Manimbong dance performed by men and then followed by the dance Ma'dandan by women. Religion Aluk regulate when and how the Toraja dancing. A dance called Ma'bua could only do 12 years. Ma'bua is important Toraja ceremony when religious leaders wearing buffalo head and danced around the sacred tree.
Toraja traditional musical instrument is a bamboo flute called Pa'suling. The flute is played at many dances, such as the dance Ma'bondensan, when this instrument played with a group of men who dance with no shirt and long finger nails. Toraja also have other musical instruments, for example Pa'pelle made from palm leaves and played at the harvest and when the opening ceremony of the house.
Language
Toraja language is only spoken and not have a writing system. Toraja language is the dominant language in Tana Toraja, with Sa'dan Toraja as major dialects. Indonesian as the national language is the official language and is used by the public, but the Toraja language was taught in all primary schools in Tana Toraja.
Some of the various languages in Toraja among others Kalumpang, Mamasa, Tae ', Talondo', Toala ', and Toraja-Sa'dan, and included in the Malayo-Polynesian of Austronesian languages. At first, the geographical nature of Tana Toraja isolated form Toraja many dialects in the language itself. After the official government in Tana Toraja, some dialects Toraja be influenced by other languages through the process of transmigration, introduced since the colonial period. It is the main cause of diversity in Toraja.
A prominent feature in the Toraja language is the idea of the grief of death. Toraja language has many terms to show sadness, longing, depression, and mental stress. It is a catharsis for the Toraja if it can clearly show the influence of the events lose someone; it is sometimes also intended to reduce the suffering of grief itself.
In Toraja society, the funeral service is the most important ritual and costly. The more rich and powerful man, then the cost of the funeral service will be more expensive. In religion aluk, only noble families who are entitled to hold a big funeral feast. Funeral party a royalty is typically attended by hundreds of people and lasted several days. A funeral procession place called Rante is usually prepared in a prairie, as well as the mourners in attendance, as well as a granary, and the various other funeral devices made by the family of the deceased. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and wailing is an expression of condolence carried out by the Toraja, but it does not apply to funeral children, the poor and the lower class.
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The funeral ceremony recently held occasionally after weeks, months, even years since death is concerned, with the aim that the bereaved family can collect enough money to cover funeral expenses. Toraja people believe that death is not something that comes suddenly but it is a gradual process toward Puya (the spirit world, or the afterlife). In the waiting period, the body is wrapped with a few strands 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 spirits will travel to Puya.
Another part of the cemetery is the slaughter of the buffalo. The more powerful a person the more buffalo were slaughtered. Slaughtering is done by using a machete. Buffalo carcass, including its head, lined up on the field, waiting for the owner, who was in the "sleeping period". Toraja people believe that spirits need a buffalo to make the journey and will be faster until at Puya if there is a lot of buffalo. Slaughter dozens of buffaloes and hundreds of pigs is the culmination funeral dance music blaring and young men who catch spurting blood with a long bamboo. Most of the meat is given to the guests and noted because it will be considered as owed to the family of the deceased.
There are three ways cemetery: Coffins can be stored in a cave, or in the tomb of carved stone, or hung on the cliff. Wealthy people sometimes buried in the tomb of carved stone. The tomb is usually expensive and time it was created around a few months. In some areas, the rock caves used to save the bodies of all family members. Wood sculpture called tau tau are usually placed in the cave and facing outward. Coffins babies or children are hung with rope on the cliff side. The rope usually last for a year before making his trunk rot and fall.
Music and Dance
Toraja tribal dance is usually done on several occasions, mostly in the funeral. They dance to grief, and to honor the spirits of the deceased as well as encourage the spirits will live a long journey to the afterlife. First of all, a group of men formed a circle and sang all night in honor of the deceased (the ritual called Ma'badong). The ritual is considered as the most important component of a funeral ceremony. On the second day of the funeral, soldiers dance Ma'randing shown to commend the courage of the deceased during his lifetime. Some men do a dance with sword, shield of buffalo leather, buffalo horn helmets, and various other ornaments.
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Music and Dance |
Ma'randing dance procession started when the bodies were brought from granary to the Rante, where the funeral. During the ceremony, the women do Ma'katia dance, singing and dressed in feathered dress. Ma'akatia dance aims to remind the audience on the generosity and loyalty of the deceased. After the slaughter of the buffalo and pigs, a group of boys and girls ovation perform a cheerful dance called Ma'dondan.
Toraja singing and dancing during the harvest season. Ma'bugi dance performed to celebrate Thanksgiving and dance Ma'gandangi displayed when the Toraja was pounding rice There are some dances of war, for example Manimbong dance performed by men and then followed by the dance Ma'dandan by women. Religion Aluk regulate when and how the Toraja dancing. A dance called Ma'bua could only do 12 years. Ma'bua is important Toraja ceremony when religious leaders wearing buffalo head and danced around the sacred tree.
Toraja traditional musical instrument is a bamboo flute called Pa'suling. The flute is played at many dances, such as the dance Ma'bondensan, when this instrument played with a group of men who dance with no shirt and long finger nails. Toraja also have other musical instruments, for example Pa'pelle made from palm leaves and played at the harvest and when the opening ceremony of the house.
Language
Toraja language is only spoken and not have a writing system. Toraja language is the dominant language in Tana Toraja, with Sa'dan Toraja as major dialects. Indonesian as the national language is the official language and is used by the public, but the Toraja language was taught in all primary schools in Tana Toraja.
Some of the various languages in Toraja among others Kalumpang, Mamasa, Tae ', Talondo', Toala ', and Toraja-Sa'dan, and included in the Malayo-Polynesian of Austronesian languages. At first, the geographical nature of Tana Toraja isolated form Toraja many dialects in the language itself. After the official government in Tana Toraja, some dialects Toraja be influenced by other languages through the process of transmigration, introduced since the colonial period. It is the main cause of diversity in Toraja.
A prominent feature in the Toraja language is the idea of the grief of death. Toraja language has many terms to show sadness, longing, depression, and mental stress. It is a catharsis for the Toraja if it can clearly show the influence of the events lose someone; it is sometimes also intended to reduce the suffering of grief itself.
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