Once a year they dig out the dead were And Dress Them. Meaning of Ritual - it's a shock!

The funeral of relatives and loved ones for us is a sacred ritual. From the moment when the coffin was lowered into the ground, the body and the soul of the deceased belongs to eternity. Our culture is not made to disturb the dead.

The complete opposite of these concepts is the Indonesian tribe Toraja. There, at the other end of the globe to honor the dead made differently.





Once a year, take out the corpse from the coffin and dressed up in clean clothes.







After this, the venerable dead "go" in the village.









Original name of this ritual sounds like «Ma'nene», which means "cleansing ceremony corpses»

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Indonesians with great respect and love are dead bodies, because they are still members of their family. Ignoring this ritual would be a manifestation of complete disrespect for the dead.









For residents of the Pacific Western tradition, in which there is no ritual "purification of corpses", seem very strange. I must admit, and we are afraid of such a ceremony. The main thing is to always remember that the beauty of humanity is manifested in its differences.

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