Rambu Solo is a ceremony devoted to the ancestral spirits that have been transformed into deata. The ceremony was led by a tomina. A person's social status is crucial in organizing the ceremonies. Residents of royalty layers usually requires a long time with a
ceremonial procession more complicated and animal sacrifices are more
than ordinary citizens who tend to be simple.
Residents of KAUNAN layer including a slave or slaves, ceremony disili if there were deaths. Disili ceremony requires bodies to direct-buried on the day of death and should not be lodged. Sacrificial animals for slaughter is a pig.
Residents of society tomakala (the most) ceremony 'dipesangbongi' at the time of death, the bodies would be kept overnight, and was buried the next day. Animals were sacrificed buffalo and a few pigs.
Ma'dika society or middle nobility, ceremony didoya. The ceremony lasted for 3-7 nights. Usually it will be established melantang, namely the building to accommodate family members and guests who come for condolences. Animals were sacrificed buffalo whose number ranges between 4-14 tail and some pigs.
In aristocratic society, the necessary equipment and greater costs that must be decided by the family council. Deliberation usually discuss matters relating to the ceremony venue, lodging, ceremony stage and the number of sacrificial animals.
The procession began with the ceremonial bathing the corpse, giving balm, then wrapped in a shroud, put in erong (crate), transferred to the reeds (small houses to store grain). Peti will be decorated with red silk cloth with gold trinkets. Heirlooms have deceased will also be placed in it. Alang side where the coffin will be placed tau-tau (statues themselves deceased), then the family will do ma'bodong or hymn in the language of Tana Toraja around the corpse.
Biography of the deceased normally be read through a poem called ma'badong. The reading of history starts from the lineage, life, soul departed to Puya (land souls of the dead) until finally the soul rises into the sky and blend with the ancestral spirits.
Malantang or cottage at the ceremony venue that can hold a capacity of up to one hundred people. Malantang will be decorated with ornaments typical of the area of Tana Toraja. Animal victims prepared in the form of some black buffalo and one buffalo spotted. The body of the grass will be carried by several dozen people. Coffin will be shaken by the rough motion and then raised to the family's bungalow together with tau-tau. Ma'bodong will be sung in a low voice.
This ceremony will continue for several days in a row and on the 8th day will be massive cuts buffalo in Simbuang also called ronte (terrain). Buffalo meat that has been cut will be distributed to the villagers, traditional leaders and officials.
The peak of the ceremony the procession medama peliang or dropping the corpse to the grave. The procession is preceded by a Protestant Christian religious ceremonies and family left behind will be wailing, hugging the coffin. Erong then released from reeds and placed in a burial cave along tau-tau. Three days after the funeral there will be slaughtering a cow and a pig.
Source : kebudayaanindonesia.net
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