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My Grandpa’s Funeral in Toraja
Last
month my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s funeral. It
was my first time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered there with our
kin in the ceremony.
Overall,
the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week. Several days
before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept in a series of
houses arranged in a circular row around an open field called tongkonan.
His corpse was dressed in a fi ne wearing.
The
funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered the pigs and
buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face north. In this ceremony we
wore black clothes. After that, the corpse was placed in a sandal wood
coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placed on an open
platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile, my uncle, my brother, and I
prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower called lakian. The next
phase of the ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from
the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there were also
buffalo matches. They were great matches. In the night, we were
feasting, chanting, and dancing.
On
the last day, the grandpa’s coffin were lowered from the funeral tower
and brought up to the mountain side family graveyard. It was followed by
great shouting and excitement from the relatives and the guests.
Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony where other
puppets representing the members of a whole family were already there.
The funeral ceremonies made my family and me tired. However, we were
grateful because it ran smoothly.
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