Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
Tangkiling Hill and a Stone Flanking the Sin
Down the hill in the Palangkaraya, will not complete if you have not climbed on this one hill, Bukit Tangkiling. Located far from the city center, exactly Jl Tjilik Riwut Km 32 toward outside the city. From all over view, appear lush wooded hills. To enter the foothills [Read More]
Death Ceremony of Dayak Maanyan tribe
This funeral is a Kaharingan religious heritage embraced by most dayak Ma’anyan in antiquity time Dayak Ma’anyan , like many other dayak’s sub tribe was originally practiced the old Kaharingan religion, which is the form of ancestor worship, mixed [Read More]
BADEWA, Disease Healing Ritual of Bakumpai
BADEWA, is one of the typical rituals of Bakumpai Tribe which is a sub of Dayak Ngaju Tribe . The ceremony aims to heal the sick in , or in banjar languaged known as Batatamba. Badewa ritual grown and developed before Islam entered the Barito Kuala district. Starting from a [Read More]
A Hundreds of years Baluntang , an Unrecorded Cultural Statue
Peoples of Dayak Maanyan calls it Baluntang, while in Dayak Ngaju it’s called Sapundu. Both of it has an almost same shape and function. Its age are hundreds. Unfortunately, this archaeological heritage has not been officially registered by the government [Read More]
Tiwah,the Death Ritual by the Dayak of Central Borneo
Tiwah ritual is a procession that is intended to deliver ancestral spirits of relatives who has passed away to the afterlife by way of cleanse and move the rest of the body from the grave to a place called sandung. Ritual tiwah is unique and distinctive culture, because it [Read More]
