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Tana Toraja is a region protected beyond the lofty mountains and rugged granite cliffs of the central highlands of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It is the home of the Toraja people, an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi. The nobility of Toraja are believed to be descendants of heavenly beings …
September 2020 The Torajans believe that the dead can take their wealth with them into the afterlife, Nirvana. Funerals, called Rambu Solo, are an elaborate and expensive sequence of rituals and ceremonies. Relatives of the deceased sacrifice up to 100 buffaloes for the nobles, or up to 8 buffaloes and 50 pigs for the middle …
September 2020 For many people, the worst part about losing a loved one is the fact that you never see them again. Once they are buried, that’s it. The person is gone forever, and the only way we can see them is in pictures and our memories. Not so for the Toraja people, who despite the …