Toraja festival

Toraja is one of the most famous festivals in Indonesia. Toraja conventional notion gadget is polytheistic notion anisme known as aluk, or "manner" (from time to time translated as "law"). In the Toraja myth, the ancestors of the Toraja got here from heaven the use of stairs that is then utilized by the Toraja as a manner of managing Puang Matua, pencipta.Alam god of the universe, consistent with aluk, divided into top world (heaven) the human world (earth), and the arena bawah.Pada first, heaven and earth to get married and bring darkness, separation, after which comes the light. Animals stay withinside the underworld is represented with a square form bounded with the aid of using 4 pillars, the earth is an area for humanity, and the paradise is placed on pinnacle, included with a gable roof berbetuk. Other Toraja gods is Pong Banggai in Chain (god of Earth), Indo 'Ongon-Ongon (goddess of earthquakes), Pong Lalondong (god of death), Indo' Belo tumbles (goddess of medicine), and others.

Rambu solo is an occasion very festive culture in Tana Toraja, as it takes days to have fun. The rite is normally held withinside the afternoon, while the solar started leaning to the west and normally takes 2-three days. Even up to 2 weeks for the nobility. Grave itself is made withinside the pinnacle of the cliff at the peak of the rock. Because consistent with the believe Aluk To Dolo (Tana Toraja human beings's self belief first, earlier than the appearance of Christianity and Islam) most of the human beings of Tana Toraja, the better the location the frame became placed, then the earlier his soul to nirvana. The motive they do rambu solo is due to the fact they need to have fun the human beings’s death.

Location: all over Indonesia

Time: July and September