Ritual Tolak Bala di Danau Toba

Reject ritual Bala on Lake Toba ... Horas horas horas ... .... It was a loud shout came from the ship that sailed KM Toba in the middle of the lake. Previously, the participants of white rice sprinkled ritual by Boru Sedihma Silalahi, a woman known as the key interpreter of Lake Toba. Shouted the traditional bugle accompaniment of beating gongs and blowing a flute. The smell of incense was felt. Incense smoke billowing up into the hull ships continue to bring us into the middle of Lake Toba. Right in the middle of the lake once again topping white rice mengiasi blue cloud. Some people seemed eager to carry offerings that have been prepared in a square wooden box. Ritual process that took place these carefully sweep began with a procession of some kinds of foods, such as betel leaves, head of the white goat, chicken eggs, tobacco, banana, watermelon, and white rice into the middle of the lake. After the process is over melarungkan offerings, the whole community gathered to perform the ceremony and dance at an open stage, accompanied by the rhythm and dance Batak gondang tor-mentor. Stunning silima then submit the form rope offering prayers. Pangurason tortor tor-mentor and the seven bowls anesthetize the audience, and continued with a single office office panaluan, mamatik borotan, and Hoda manogu hu sihapas select borotan. All citizens are allowed stroking horses (mangapus Hoda miahan) that begins with the first gondang (drum start), gondang Somba (drum tribute), and accompanied gondang mangaliat (drum around). Ritual is mangapus Hoda miahan dedicated breath through the air, the blood through the soil, and through seven types of meat dishes. That is, the air as the creation of Almighty God that we have to respect and appreciate as the breath of humans. So is our land as a place to live and live. Form of homage done by making the blood of horses into the ground which means repellent reinforcements and support from the archipelago of the earth and angry kejaliman danger. Then a white horse meat prepared in seven types of cuisine, and submitted as a form of tribute to God the Almighty, ending with tor-tor together. That series of events in the ritual Disaster Reject archipelago of Lake Toba for a place in the region of Lake Toba, Parapat, North Sumatra. The ritual of this army of deliberately starting again turned on after 2 centuries stopped, precisely since the introduction of Christianity in the land of Batak. Through this cultural ritual of gratitude was conducted. Since the time Sisingamangaraja to 12, the disaster is now predictable, because the message contained in the abandoned 12th king. Boru Sedihma Silalahi said that the ritual is not watchman Lake Toba Batak people angry in the region and to avoid disaster. According to him, watchman of Lake Toba has a desire that must be met in order for anger can be eliminated, the union back all Batak society.