The Toraja Way of Death.

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Travel & Places on March 28, 2006 at 7:13 pm


From the website:

The Toraja way of death is a fascinating mix of ritual, custom and spectacle. For the Toraja, the dead are as much a part of society as the living. At Lemo, cliffs rise precipitously from the rice fields like stonework condominiums. Crypts, carved with prodigious manual labour, high into the solid rock, house the mortal remains of Toraja nobility. Set among the crypts, the striking tau tau, life-size wooden effigies representing the deceased, look impassively on the world below. Tau means ‘man’ and tau tau ‘men’ or ‘statue’.

Link(via Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society)


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One comment to "The Toraja Way of Death."

  1. TiiannaTerror
    January 6th, 2009 at 7:01 am

    Errrrmmm ......

    Scary Shit !!


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