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In the early 1900s, with the arrival of the Dutch Christian missionaries in Toraja, the production of tau tau was somewhat dampened. At the 1985 synod of Toraja Church in Palopo people debated if Protestant Toraja could have tau tau at their funerals.
A Torajan priest during a Toraja death feast. Toraja's indigenous belief system is polytheistic animism, called aluk, or "the way" (sometimes translated as "the law"). In the Toraja myth, the ancestors of Torajan people came down from heaven using stairs, which were then used by the Torajans as a communication medium with Puang Matua, the ...
Ma'nene is the ritual practiced by the Torajan people (takes place each year in August), the bodies of the deceased are exhumed to be washed, groomed and dressed in new clothes. [15] Memorials is an object which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event.
So the infobox should represents the ethnic group identity and if the map is moved to the infobox, the History section will have no image. The map is suitable to describe the location of Torajan among Bugis and Makassarese, explained in the History section. — Indon (reply) — 17:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC) I what you say makes sence.
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Although still commanding great prestige in a ritual sense, the tongkonan, like many traditional Indonesian housing styles, has a small, dark and smoky interior, and consequently is losing favour amongst contemporary Torajans. Instead, many Torajan villagers are choosing to live in a single storey 'Pan-Indonesia' style residence.
Aronofsky, writing about his friend for CNN, said a “death ritual” scene filmed for the episode was “ironic,” even considering it was shot six months before Bourdain’s suicide.
The Alabama worker was trying to fix a jammed machine when they were crushed, officials said.