Posted on 02/21/2019 9:02:52 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The Toraja people of Indonesia often don't bury their deceased loved ones for years - or even decades
In a mountainous area of Indonesia, the Toraja people mummify the bodies of the deceased and care for their preserved bodies as though they are still living.
There are around one million Torajan people, most of whom live in the South Sulawesi region, who believe that after death the soul remains in the house so the dead are treated to food, clothing, water, cigarettes.
The stench is strong, so the family will store lots of dried plants beside the body to mask the odour.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Lessons for RGB? For folks wanting to continue collecting checks?
Lessons for RGB? For folks wanting to continue collecting checks?
All that and maybe they can pick up extra cash selling yogurt, now that the Ruskies are out of favor?
Don’t let the DNC find out about this. They will be voting Democrat for the next thousand years.
Diversity is our strength! When do the Torajas arrive here?
Negative information, something you really don’t need to know.
Clara poses with her dead sister Arel, who died when she was six.
Clara looks happy holding her dead sister, NOT.
Most of the images appear to have been taken in the vicinity of a church and one of the landscapes showed a large satellite dish as well as a cable (power line ?) running to the building next to the dish.
A lot of the living people were wearing surgical masks when they were handling the dead as well as plastic gloves. I still want my flying car but I'm really, really glad we don't have Smell'o'vision !
Chicago must be full of Torajans, all still voting Democrat.
Madness
They are apparently “Christian,” according to the article, and implied by Wikipedia.
I don’t see any of the dead babes winning Miss Indonesia, but then we have our cows who call themselves ‘feminists’, and if it comes down to one or the other, I’ll take the Indonesian babes - since at least they won’t divorce you and clean you out.
‘Demonrats’ do the same and trot their dead every election day, first of the month and count them in the census and include them on their tax forms.
This article did contain several inaccuracies. I married a Toraja woman 35 years ago, and all my kids are half Torajan. I have been there many times, and we have several houses there. I have seen all of the activities depicted in the article, but have never detected any untoward stench. These people seem to rot in a most unobtrusive manner; my missus says it is because their chili, which they seemingly cannot do without and is one of the most powerful in the world, alters the putrifaction process, though I have never been able to ascertain her claim. Could be, I dunno.
To Torajans, there is absolutely nothing weird about their custom, though with the intrusion of the modern world, many are staring to see it as a bit extreme. Most have travelled outside of Toraja, and many internationally. They form a tight community here in Jakarta, and tend to succeed pretty well in modern businesses. By no means rich or sophisticated, most Torajans lead surprisingly modern and comfortable lives, with complete mobile ‘phone coverage and high speed internet connections. The satellite dish is only for reception of the domestic television programs, although cable connections are available in the larger towns.
Torajans are nearly all Christians, ~80% Protestant, and quite devout. Muslims have never been welcome there. Eye of the beholder, of course, but the topography of Toraja, of which no mention was made in the story, is probably the most splendid in all of Indonesia.
Not so. My Torajan wife’s grandfather died at age 103, and my mother in law still works her rice paddy at 87. Her hearing is gone, and her eyes fog up now and again, but I have never known her to be sick nor infirm. Their chili seems to inoculate them.
I am sure they find the way we treat our elders as barbaric.
That’s the “fun” of culture.
One's dead sister is not the same as the Barbie she wanted.
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