Ritual of Walking Bodies in Indonesia

in #news6 years ago

Indonesia is rich in culture and tradition.
One of the Toraja customs to honor his ancestor, Ma'nene or change his ancestral body clothes.

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Manene ritual is a unique tradition. This ritual is done to replace the corpse clothes that his age reaches tens to hundreds of years. This ritual is only in Toraja, South Sulawesi.

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Ma'nene's work to honor the bodies of the ancestors after the harvest was completed in August.

How to do this tradition is unique.
The corpses of the family that had gone unopened, were bathed and then given new clothes.

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Bodies in Toraja are not buried in the ground.

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Rather stored in the caves to make it easier to run the ceremony.

Myth says, if the dead will turn into the undead and will walk around the village to meet relatives.
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This is what makes the tribe of Sulawesi believe if the direction of their ancestors remain immutable and will return to the village within a certain time.

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