The Trees That Saved Dozens Of Dead Babies In Tana Toraja
Tanah Toraja, a famous tourist attraction with cultural richness. District is located approximately 350 km north of Makassar is very popular with custom home building form. The traditional house called Tongkonan. The roof is made of split bamboo and arranged overlapping.
Tana Toraja traditional house
Tongkonan also has undergraduate degrees in accordance strata of nobility like the gold, bronze, iron and brass. So that attach images to Tanah Toraja house building, as a form of tourism promotion and to attract Japanese tourists then built custom homes in the country (Japan). Building done by businessmen who brought Toraja tourism to Japan. There were two Tongkonan very similar to the original Tongkonan. Presence Tongkonan always impress people because the country’s unique shape. The difference from that in Tanah Toraja is located on the roof only using bamboo.
Tara tree, saved dozens dead babies
There are many other attractions from Tanah Toraja in addition to traditional ceremonies Rambu Solo (funeral) who is the famous. Baby graves in the trees at Kampung Kambira Tarra, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Rantepao, prepared for the baby’s body ages 0-7 years. Although babies buried in the tree that Tarra was not implemented since the last decades, but the tree where “bury” the baby’s body was still upright and often visited by tourists. Tarra on the tree that has fruit with a circle of trunk 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies. Before the body is inserted into the tree, the tree was first drilled and then a dead baby and placed into the fibers covered with a black palm tree. After decades, the baby’s body will be merged with the tree. This is an appeal to the traveler and to Tanah Toraja people still regard the place as sacred as the newborn child. Placement in the tree baby’s body is also adapted to the social strata. The higher the socio-degree family the higher the infant who was buried where the trunks of trees Tarra. Even babies who die are placed in the direction of the bereaved family lived. If the house is in the western part of the tree, then the child’s body will be placed in the west.
Interesting event in this tourist area that is the burial ceremony (Rambu Solo) and Rambu Tuka (showers) which is the event each year. In addition to these events, visitors can see close up interesting cultural attractions such as the corpse in the reservoir storage body shaped “container” giant size, and Tongkonan house already 600 years in Londa, Rantepao.
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