Buffalo sacrifice Tana Toraja
The higher the status of a dead person, the more buffalo are slaughtered at a Torajan funeral. The ritualized Torajan way of slaughtering a buffalo may remind of an ancient but unequal fight between humans and animals. I know that most of us don't like to see such pictures but we somehow have to realize that modern society industrialized such processes, taking them away from our eyes. Anyway, we continue to eat meat...
Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, May 2009.
Labels: animals, buffalo, Carabao, facts to know, festivities, Indonesia, religion, rites, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja
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