Rambu Solo Toraja

Rambu Solo Toraja. Rambu Solo takes a long time to celebrate sometimes the funeral held in a weeks months even years after death so that the family can collect enough money to cover the costs of rituals Toraja is the tribe who settled in the southeast of Sulawesi island Indonesia .

The death ceremonies of Toraja named Rambu Solo’ is the apotheosis of Torajan festival because of the sheer magnitude and cultural significance that follows It marks the point where a person passes from the living to join the ancestors Not vanished or forgotten but transported into another state of being.

Rambu Solo’: the Toraja Cult of the Dead and Embodied Imagination

Rambu Solo Ceremony is ceremonial death Toraja society that aims to honor and deliver the souls of the deceased to the realm of soul that is back to eternity with their ancestors in a resting place This traditional ceremony has become tourists’ entertainment for years It is actually a procession of the death The locals gather in one place and carry a small Tongkonan to reach the burial.

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the Western observer the Toraja Cult of the Dead is far from a macabre preoccupation with the frightening or repugnant aspects of death Rather the rituals of “Rambu Solo’” provide a means for Toraja culture to assert control and meaning over the fact of death.