Sandung is the Last Place

Dayak tribes, is one of the many tribes in Indonesia which put death rituals at the most high in the order of culture. Death is regarded as the beginning of a long journey towards sebayan (nature after life/saruga/heaven ~ dayak people ignorant of the existence of hell). So that people who die, should be given enough stock, provided the media a long journey as well as a good place to live. It is provided by the families who are still living.

Death rituals, in addition to delivering souls final resting place, University of Regensburg, unconsciously has become such a show of strength (show of force) by families who are still living, is due to perform the ritual of appointment/transfer of the framework of the deceased from the grave into Sandung cost does little, time rituals (they call it a party) for a little over a full week, day and night.

Sandung…

Sandung, generally made of Ulin wood (Eusideroxylon zwageri), often also called Tebelian wood, wood or iron Proof. To get the ulin wood with a diameter of 60 cm above the pretty hard and it took a large charge, besides Sandung is generally accompanied with different types of carvings and only certain people can do it, because the carvings were not made arbitrarily, there are certain conditions that must be met, as if one may give rise to a kind of bala (the author or the family, can be possessed could even cause death), I understand the purpose of the existence of a true army, to defend the sacredness of the carving with do not allow just anyone to carve it.

The ritual of the appointment framework of the deceased and move it to the Sandung called TIWAH (kalteng) and in some places in West Kalimantan is colloquially known as ngensudah, not everyone is able to execute the dayak tiwah, which is why at the tiwah raised not only a framework, but it can be a family or some framework, this is done to a very high cost.
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At this time, especially since the entry of the Catholic Religion take it by Protestant Christian missionaries, by Zending, and the spread of Islam by arab traders, the ritual has begun to be abandoned, it is now more modest death event, tiwah no longer lift the frame of the deceased but simply marked by doing advanced hardening like cementing or installing ceramic on the Tomb. This way is considered enough to do homage to the deceased while not aggravating the family left behind.

Ngensudah, it could mean an end to the relationship between the dead with the living. This ritual is a form of simplification of tiwah, implementation time generally after forty days or so since the death. In this event generally marked with beautifying the tomb with cementing or installing ceramic and slaughter of livestock in the form of Sandung as much as 1 (one) tail. At this event, all the residents of the village and the surrounding villages are invited. It is important to note, before the event ngensudah is implemented, the wife or husband of the deceased was forbidden to seek a new life partner.