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architecture:
Torajas are known for their remarkable dwellings, quite similar to the
Batak buildings of North Sumatra. These houses, richly carved and painted,
have sweeping roofs like huge slopeprowed vessels riding in a sea of tropical
foilage. In some villages where the houses and granaries stand in rows
it feels like you're in the middle of a fleet of ships floating on the
wind. The buffalo is the symbol of fertility, strength and protection
from evil, so the gables of Torajan houses are often decorated with buffalo
horns. Family status is shown by the number of horns at the entrance of
the house. Geometrical patterns on structures are in black, red and white
and are so perfect and symmetrical that they seem to have been precisely
measured (they weren't). All designs come out evenly no matter how large
or small the surface covered. Designs on the houses all represent some
aspect of the festivals of A/uk Todolo. Only certain people are allowed
to place certain designs on their houses. Pushed on rails, these dwellings
can be moved from place to place. At the village of Marante, Palawa',
Nanggala, see some impressive adat houses (but greedy kids are a nuisance).
In each village seek out the Tongkonan house which is the focus of religious
activity, usually richly ornamented and built solely by the tongue and
groove construction. At the completion of each new dwelling there's an
elaborate housewarming feast of buffalo meat and pork to which the whole
village is invited, a joyful time when women dance with scarves. Now only
5% of the people actually live in the trad houses and, like a model wild
west town for a movie set, Pacto Tours has begun constructing them especially
for the tourist trade.
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
