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Tana Toraja

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Tana Toraja is one of the most popular tourist attraction in the province of South Sulawesi. Here you enjoy the typical culture of the Torajans who inhabit mountainous terrain typicalof Austronesian cultures with the original. Savor the nuances of another culture that is unique and different, ranging from custom homes Tongkonan, funeral SignsSolo, Londa, CaveTombs Necropolis necropolis of Lemo, Stone or Baby Kambira.

According to a myth is told from generation to generation, the original ancestors of Torajan people came down straight from Heaven by using the stairs, where the staircase serves as a communication medium with Puang Matua (the only God).

The name Toraja was first given by the Bugis Makassar Sidenreng calling residents living in these areas as ";" (people who inhabit mountainous areas). While the people of Luwu calls them, "Riajang" (people who inhabit the Western region). Another version says that the Toraja of the word ' Toraya ' (Tau: the person, and the Kingdom or great: maraya), combinedthese two words gives the meaning "great people" or "noble man". The next term is more often used is the term Toraja, the words "tana" itself means "area. Population and territoryeventually became known as the Toraja Tana Toraja.

Toraja society embraced "aluk" or custom is belief, traditional rituals and rules, strictly defined by his ancestors. Although the majority of Toraja society many who embracedProtestantism or Catholicism but the ancestral traditions and ceremonies are still being practiced.

Toraja society makes a clear separation between the rites and rituals associated with life and death. This is because the berterkaitan rituals with the planting and harvesting season.Toraja society themselves to cultivate it with the rice plant type of the high stem gogo. Along the way you will meet rice is dried stem is tied and which piled up. Rice with radishesare

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stored in special barns decorated with Buffalo horns on the front as well as the Buffalo jaw next to it.

Tana Toraja has two types of popular ceremony which Signs Solo and Tuka. Signs Solo is a funeral, while the ceremony is the Tuka over the newly renovated traditional House.

Special Signs Solo, Toraja society believed this then the burial ceremony without the ghosts of those who died will give the misfortune to people that he left behind. The man who died was only regarded as sick people, so should still be taken care of and treated like a still life by providing food, drinks, cigarettes, betel leaves, or a variety of otherofferings.Funeral Signs Solok is a series of complex events and customary ties need not cost a bit. His preparation was for months. While waiting for the ceremony to be ready, the body of the dead wrapped in cloth and kept in ancestral houses or tongkonan. The Summit ceremony usually takes place at Solok Signs in July and August. At that time peopleToraja wandering all over Indonesia will return home to participate in this series of events. The arrival of the Toraja people followed by visits of foreign tourists.

In the belief of the society of Tana Toraja (Aluk To Dolo) there is the principle of the higher places body is placed then the sooner his spirit to get to Nirvana. Among the nobility who died then they cut the Buffalo totaling 24 to 100 tail as a sacrifice (Ma'tinggoro Tedong). One of them even the famous striped Buffalo expensive price.

 This cutting ceremony is one of the typical attractions of Tana Toraja with slashing the neck of the Buffalo uses a machete in one swing and then Buffalo jump was bathed in the blood of sprawl moments later.

Toraja society live in a small community where children who are married leave their parents and start a new life elsewhere. Although the child follows the lineage of his father and mother but they are all one big family who lived in an ancestral houses (tongkonan). Tongkonan is the Centre of social life of the Toraja. The rituals connected with the tongkonan is very important in the life of torajan spiritual. Therefore, all members are required to participate as a symbol of their relationship with their ancestors.

Toraja land itself is now divided into two districts, namely, Tana Toraja Makale craft workmanship with the capital city and Northern capital with Toraja Rantepao. Here's someinteresting objects that can give you the impression while visiting Tana Toraja.

Tongkonan Pallawa script, located about 12 Km to the North of Rantepau. Tongkonan is a big house with a saddle-shaped roof resembling a Buffalo Horn, which leads to the next.The House is different from the home of the Minangkabau in West Sumatra that has slowly shaped roof