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dance: In Pana, tourists are asked to join in circledances, and local dances are even held in the Rantepao marketplace. Dances are mostly ceremonial, the Ma gellu (or Pa gellu) being perhaps the most serene. Three to five or more teenage girls wearing beaded costumes stretch out slender arms and flutter fingers while advancing and retreating towards the audience. In the Manganda performance a group of men wear gigantic headdresses of silver coins, bulls' horns and black velvet, accompanied by a bell and the voice of the leader. These headdresses are so heavy that the dance lasts only a few minutes. The Maro Dance rite is held when a sick person must be purified. There are harvest ceremonies, the Manimbong and Ma'bugi. The Pa'daobulan is danced by a group of teenagers wearing long white dress. The Mabua is a major ceremony taking place at 12 year intervals, a dance spiritually and ecologically invaluable to the Torajas. Months of work are involved getting ready for this night long ritual, i.e. preparing a ceremonial field, costumes, and miniature implements of everyday life. There are stately female singers, festival poles, war yells, and bonfires of exploding bamboo stalks. Priests wearing water buffalo headdresses rush about a sacred tree. It concludes with a mock copulation with a buffalo. music: The bamboo flute is the favorite Torajan instrument, played at funerals and harvests, and also out of sheer joy. Schoolboys and girls play lively foot-tapping flute music. Hear flutes at their best in the Pa'bas (in Pana) performance, a mild sort of Incan sound. There are short transverse flutes as well as long ones, all decorated in the old style with poker work, beautifully engraved and colored. Sometimes resonating cones made out of buffalo horn are also used. Other instruments are fashioned from palm leaves and there are also Torajan jaw's harps. Though their singing is monotonous and restricted to just a few notes, songs include chants, poetic love songs, mourners' songs, etc. The singer is frequently accompanied by one-stringed lutes played with a bow. games: Sisemba kick fights are seen from late June to early Aug., a terrifying recreational sport when old and young men fly into the air, sometimes knocking each other unconscious. Takro is a ball game using a rattan ball which is kicked and bounced (with only the head) over a bamboo stick about 1 m high and fixed parallel to the ground. Played something like volleyball, but with only 2 or 3 players.
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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 |
