Waruga

Waruga is ancestral graves or tombs of Minahasa people made of stone and consists of two parts. The top of the ridge shaped like a triangle and the lower house square in the middle there is room. Family First Minahasa if burying the dead before the first plant wrapped in leaves woka (a type of young coconut leaf). This leaves wrapped habits changed with the changing container tree cavities or man died Nibung then inserted into the cavity of the tree and planted in the ground. Only around the ninth century Minahasa tribe began using waruga. The person who has died be placed in a position facing north and seated with the heel of the foot against the buttocks and knees to kiss the head. Objectives are exposed to the North, indicating that the Spare Minahasa ancestors came from the North. Around the year 1860 began there was a ban from the Dutch Government bury their dead in waruga. Later in the year 1870, Interest Minahasa began making coffins waruga instead, because it started an outbreak of various diseases, including typhoid and cholera. It is feared, the seedlings died transmit typhus and cholera through the gap there is between the body and waruga cupola waruga. Waruga which has carvings and reliefs are found in Tonsea. Carvings and reliefs that illustrate how many bodies are stored in the respective waruga livelihoods as well describing the person or the job lifetime. In Minahasa the north, at first waruga-existing waruga which eventually spread collected in one place. Currently spread waruga is collected in the village of Sawangan, North Minahasa regency, which is a village situated between Tondano (capital of Minahasa District) with Airmadidi (capital of North Minahasa). Now-waruga location in the village of Sawangan waruga It became one of history tourist destination in North Sulawesi.