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Toraja funeral
Extravagant funeral ceremonies are a social and religious necessity in this Christian-Animist society because families have to impress the gods with the importance of the dead. If not, the soul of the dead person may not be able to enter heaven and will travel the earth instead, causing trouble for the relatives. Families keep the corpse of their kin in their strangely shaped three room houses for two or three years, while they save up for the sumptuous wake.
This fond and funky farewell involves the construction of an entirely new village of bamboo, sometimes with more than a hundred rooms, in which to entertain thousands of guests for up to seven days.
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Toraja funeral
Extravagant funeral ceremonies are a social and religious necessity in this Christian-Animist society because families have to impress the gods with the importance of the dead. If not, the soul of the dead person may not be able to enter heaven and will travel the earth instead, causing trouble for the relatives. Families keep the corpse of their kin in their strangely shaped three room houses for two or three years, while they save up for the sumptuous wake.
This fond and funky farewell involves the construction of an entirely new village of bamboo, sometimes with more than a hundred rooms, in which to entertain thousands of guests for up to seven days.
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