Funeral ceremony in Toraja Land
since i have become a tour guide, some funeral ceremony that i've seen was quite a lots, and i can't mention it all. but a huge funeral ceremony which impresse me just some of them, one of them was funeral ceremny which has been held by the family of head of the region Amping Situru in 2006. some criteria of this impressive event are based on this category :
1.the Construction of the building we called it in local langauge
-Lantang, the constuction of temporary house to welcome family who come from faraway, the building when it's constructed until 3 staire, it means that this is big funeral ceremony.i'veseen it as amazing building
2.the location.
location which impressed me a lots, because it's located in isolated village, quite place, surrounded by panorama of rice field, which bring our fantasy in tale story, this was true.really realy nice place.
3.the number of participant.
i still remeber well when the openig ceremony held in this place, there were minister of tourism, governer from south sulawesie and some important person with thousand and thousand attendant arround the world, because at that time i've seen lots of tourists . i was with my 2 clients from france, claudine Dreux ang Jean-Loup DREUX. they were very happy to see it.
4. the number of buffallo.
the richness of the people can not be seen by the way they dress or with what car they drive, for torajanesse the wealthy can be seen by funeral ceremny, how many buffalo they slaughter, i've seen it, that the familly of Amping situru had slaughtered 300 buffalo. Huge, and fenomenal number of sacrifice of the buffalo.
5. how many days they celebrate funeral.
for the hugh noble, funeral ceremony will be held for 7 days and 7 nights, this is sacred number, 7 is the mysterous number, coincidence in many place. but the process of funeral cerfemny is absolutaley complicated to tell, because this is a long story. please come to toraja, and we will tell you for detail :)
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