Kerangka Jenazah Berjalan bagai Zombie di Tana Toraja
Ritual is Called Ma`nene or the Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses in Toraja
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
RITUAL ini disebut Ma´nene, atau Upacara Pembersihan Mayat, dan berlangsung di Toraja di Sulawesi Selatan.
Keluarga menggali kerabat mereka untuk menyegarkan mereka - dan bahkan anak-anak mati dan bayi digali.
Kerangka tersebut kemudian dibawa ke tempat di mana mereka mati dan ´dituntun´ berjalan kembali ke desa melalui jalan garis lurus.
Mereka menyatakan orang mati hidup dalam hati dan pikiran kita - tetapi di sebuah provinsi Indonesia, kerangka jenazah ternyata dapat berjalan kembali, tak ubahnya zombie yang kerap kita lihat di film-film Hollywood.
Keluarga di Toraja di Sulawesi Selatan menggali kerangka jenazah dari kerabat sebelum dicuci, menjalani perawatan khusus dan mengenakannya pakaian bagus seakan mereka hidup kembali, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Bahkan kerangkan bocah digali - menunjukkan kerangka seorang bayi dibungkus pakaian anak-anak dengan boneka diletakkan di sebelahnya.
Peti mati yang rusak diperbaiki atau diganti, dan ´zombie´ kemudian diarak di Toraja, Sulawesi Selatan mengikuti jalur garis lurus.
Ritual ini disebut Ma´nene, atau Upacara Pembersihan Mayat.
Menurut sistem kepercayaan kuno Toraja, arwah orang mati harus kembali ke desa asalnya.
Jadi, jika seseorang meninggal di perantauan, dan keluarga akan menemani kerangka jenazah kembali ke rumah almarhum dengan berjalan kembali ke desa asalnya dengan ritual yang sulit dipercaya.
Di masa lalu, keluarga mendiang yang khawatir melakukan perjalanan jauh mengantar si mayat, terpaksa merelakan jenazah keluarga mereka di perantauan.
RITUAL is called Ma´nene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses, and takes place in Toraja in South Sulawesi
Families dig up their relatives to freshen them up - and even dead children and babies are exhumed
Bodies are then taken to the place where they died and dragged back to the village via paths of straight lines
They say the dead live on in our hearts and minds - but in one Indonesian province, the deceased continue to walk the earth in a rather more literal, zombie-like fashion.
Families in Toraja in South Sulawesi dig up the bodies of their dead relatives before washing, grooming and dressing them in fancy new clothes.
Even dead children are exhumed - two of these photos show the skeleton of a baby wrapped in a print dress with a doll laid next to it.
Damaged coffins are fixed or replaced, and the mummies are then walked around the province by following a path of straight lines.
The ritual is called Ma´nene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses.
According to the ancient Torajan belief system, the spirit of a dead person must return to his village of origin.
So if a person died on a journey, the family would go to the place of death and accompany the deceased back home by walking them back to the village.
In the past, people were frightened to journey far, in case they died while they were away and were unable to return to their village.
