Purification

It is said that dead relatives still live in our hearts and memories, but in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi village, you can see literally dead among the living. This ritual is called MaiNene or purification ceremony corpses. The essence of the ritual is that of the family of nations Toraja dig out the bodies of their deceased relatives, disguised them in clean clothes, and often put them in a place where they died, even exhumed the bodies of dead children.

Here's how it happens ...

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Toraja believe that the spirit of a relative who died in the journey will not be able to find his way back to the village, to his family



Therefore, after the exhumation of the body relative to the first place of death bear, and then on foot to the village of the dead bear, as if accompanying them on the way home



Skeleton of a dead child in a dress with flowers



Not only was the ceremony brings so much horror, so more and dolls they frightening



No wonder go crazy, once in this place by accident. Indeed, in the sense of civilized man exposed corpses around the city is abnormal



Together Again: defunct couple reunited again, standing on the street in new clothes



The boy puts the body in the coffin of the deceased relative (to previous)



Despite the savagery of this action, the people of South Sulawesi treat their deceased relatives with great respect



True it looks extremely frightening



Bodies can disguise several times
Cemetery for mummies, carved into the rock
Everything! Hence