"Bring out your dead!"
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Literally...
in Indonesia, in the province of Tana Toraja, funeral rites are a little “different” from the usual. The Ma’Nene ritual is the festival of ancestor worship. When a person dies, the body is mummified with natural ingredients and buried in rock tombs. The mummification process allows the preservation of the corpse and allows the family to return to exhume it!
The Torajan people proudly display their dead relatives after digging them up and dressing them in new clothes in an ancient ritual that is meant to show respect for their loved ones.The festival, which has no fixed date, usually takes place towards the end of August, and allows people to revisit their loved ones.
Every three years, the tribe from Sulawesi island exhume their dead, who they wash and dress in fresh clothes and then pose for family photographs. The ritual, which translates as “The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses,” has been going for more than a century.I'll let you click on the link to see photos.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
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Death ceremonies are very interesting across the world.
For example, the Zoroastrians in India.
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Towers of Silence are large circular structures made out of stone. They are a cornerstone of burial practices in the Zoroastrian religion. Zoroastrians leave the deceased’s remains in the tower for vultures to consume. Believers see this as the purest and safest method of disposal for both the community and nature.
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Literally...
in Indonesia, in the province of Tana Toraja, funeral rites are a little “different” from the usual. The Ma’Nene ritual is the festival of ancestor worship. When a person dies, the body is mummified with natural ingredients and buried in rock tombs. The mummification process allows the preservation of the corpse and allows the family to return to exhume it!
The Torajan people proudly display their dead relatives after digging them up and dressing them in new clothes in an ancient ritual that is meant to show respect for their loved ones.The festival, which has no fixed date, usually takes place towards the end of August, and allows people to revisit their loved ones.
Every three years, the tribe from Sulawesi island exhume their dead, who they wash and dress in fresh clothes and then pose for family photographs. The ritual, which translates as “The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses,” has been going for more than a century.I'll let you click on the link to see photos.
