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Tiwah Dayak, Reaching Nirvana

Adherents Kaharingan Village Tumbang Torung, inland central Borneo, living trust also has the edge. Kaharingan - belief in the ancestral heritage of the Dayak Ngaju - knows no limits when death completed the entire activity of the human soul. 
 
Not only that, there was a pause when the soul left the world forever. The principle that a confirmation, people are always in the shade Ranying Hatala sky - the Creator, the controller of the universe. 
 
Kaharingan is an ancient religion. Old beliefs which adherents believed to have lived together with the creation of the universe. And as adherents who believe there is life after death, human nature Kaharingan also believe there is good and bad after mankind. 
 
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Kaharingan also have a tradition. One is tiwah. The procession will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. That is why the implementation tiwah done in bulk. The goal, lifting and cleaning the body in order to penetrate nirvana. 
 
Tiwah is a ritual of death for adherent Kaharingan the final level. The preparation was briefly. It took a month or more to get close to the top of the procession. At this moment the family and relatives gathered, is responsible in each of the bodies that will diupacarakan. 
 
Does not merely take care of the soul or spirit journey towards lewu tatau or heaven, the family is also concerned that the procession could take off rutas tiwah or misfortune, in the form of bad influences. 
 
Important requirements that should never be left in tiwah is having the availability of chicken, pork, or buffalo which is used as a god. The animals will be stabbed in the body using a spear or lunju. Animal sacrifice was also a form of respect for the heirs. 
 
Buffalo head that was cut down later dipancang at the top of a pole. Kaharingan adherents believe, marks the head of the large number of servant spirits in heaven. 
 
Furthermore, the bodies of the skull that had been wrapped in cloth collected. After all is ready, one by one the family took the body and bring it to the stumbling - the final resting place. 
 
Surrounded stumbled ambatan or statues of wood into the last funeral spirits of the ancestors. At this point relative to the guidance limit. They led salumpuk Liau or spirit ancestors to lewu Liau located in the seventh sky. 
 
Kaharingan's people believe the spirits will pass through a long journey, through 40 layers of dew, rivers, mountains, ocean, lake, or whatever. If tiwah imperfect implementation, spirits are escorted to the afterlife would be lost. 
 
Without tiwah, for adherents Kaharingan, it is impossible that the spirits will get to lewu Liau. Tiwah also as a marker of their lives, as the marital status of the bond release. After tiwah, they left behind a husband or wife, be allowed to choose a partner again. 
 
Tiwah falsifies death as well as complement those still in the world.

Tiwah Dayak, Reaching Nirvana

Adherents Kaharingan Village Tumbang Torung, inland central Borneo, living trust also has the edge. Kaharingan - belief in the ancestral her...

The mystery of hieroglyphics in the pyramids Revealed

<img alt="The mystery of hieroglyphics in the pyramids Revealed" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvx5Q1vjitwdweNkYObXrMfKDeXWOOme_1eagV7YZTnwczZhG4E04fIQQuJoS2Q6qIM27YoXKP3Ks8EbdaFI3cLpJ1vmBxmNoGeRuuDcFsvUTvWtxwbBH99-MsgEOS5dtZA9jvLrNwC42r/s1600/Hieroglif.jpg" width="630" />Browsing archaeologists into the Pyramids of Giza with the help of a robot able to find a secret message written in hieroglyphic script. The readings are done hieroglyphic script finally reveals that it is the symbol rate. 
 
"hieroglyphic symbols that are numbers. Read from right to left, then 100, 20, 1. The figures are expressed around the secret room, 121 feet," said Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who has specialized in the field of mathematics in Ancient Egypt. 
 
Miatello said, hieroglyphs were found at the back door of one room mystery. The room is one of the 4 rooms in the pyramid that was found in 1872 and decades of a puzzle for the archaeologists. 
 
Shaun Whitehead, researchers involved in this project reveals, "If that's true hieroglyphic figures and stating precise measurement of the mysterious room, this is amazing. This will be the key to the riddle of rare and large about what is really the architect of the pyramid was thinking." 
 
Pyramid of the discovery of hieroglyphics was built for Pharaoh Khufu and is the largest among the three pyramids at Giza. According Miatello who write about the patterns of the pyramid in figure ankh Journal and the Journal of Archaeology of Egypt, a multiple of 7, 9 and 11 cubits often encountered in the design patterns of the pyramid.

The mystery of hieroglyphics in the pyramids Revealed

Browsing archaeologists into the Pyramids of Giza with the help of a robot able to find a secret message written in hieroglyphic script. The...

Tengger Culture Threatened with Extinction

Culture Tengger considered threatened with extinction. The cause, not a few young people dressed Tengger much slang, and leave the inherited culture of the ancestors. 
 
Concern was delivered by Prof Dr Iwan Nugroho, a researcher who is also vice-chancellor of the University Widyagama Malang, East Java, Monday (13/06/2011), in Malang, to Kompas.com, after complete discussion of the Cultural Tengger, with 17 figures Tenggerese . 
 
"Not a few young generation is looking Tenggerese slang. It was not just felt nonwarga Tengger, but by the people, especially leaders who admired the Tengger people," he said. 
 
Iwan explained, the parents no longer instill the culture and traditions to future generations Tengger. "In addition, younger generations no longer assume that the inherited culture of his ancestors were, fit for him," he said. 
 
Anticipation, says Iwan, early on the parents have to instill a tradition or culture that became Tenggerese strength. "Although the children taking education to the city, do not have to leave the culture that became the legacy of his ancestors," he said. 
 
Because the residents living around the slopes of the Tengger of Bromo-rich tourist attraction and a destination of foreign and local tourists, the government should direct the tourist to a local-based sector. "Keep a local crocodile. Do not let foreign culture beat," said Iwan. 
 
According to customs figures Tengger, Ngatrulin (75), specifically in the Village Ngadas, Poncokusumo District, Malang regency, is still quite not be eroded. "Because young children are still able to maintain the culture of Tengger," he said. 
 
But in addition to the Village Ngadas, said Ngatrulin, many young people are seen hanging Tengger. "His appearance is a modern style, are oblivious to the culture of his ancestors," said Ngratulin. 
 
To anticipate the cultural erosion of Tengger, in among them all gathered together his children either at home or in front of the house at night, Ngratulin provide insight into the culture of Tengger. 
 
"For example, a cultural ritual Tenggerese pujan, which held four times a year. Others are clean hamlet, karu feast, the feast of Galungan, barian ceremony. Barian ceremony was held when there is earthquake or an earthquake had occurred during the two times. If only one can not be accomplished," said Ngratulin. 
 
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Tengger Culture Threatened with Extinction

Culture Tengger considered threatened with extinction. The cause, not a few young people dressed Tengger much slang, and leave the inherited...