Ritual Menyembelih Kerbau,Kalimantan,Indonesia

Thousands of residents from 31 villages, crowded into the open expanse of trees surrounded by lush forests Kalahien Village, South Village District, District of South Barito, Central Kalimantan. Due to crowded visitors, some people sitting in the branches of a tree not far from the banks of the Barito River.

The focus of their attention toward sapundu, which is shaped ironwood statue woman holding a child figures about three feet high erected in the middle of the open arena. Some people seem to enter the arena, leading a buffalo fat.

buffalo neck was straped for the arm, made of woven rattan. The other end of the rope placed around the sapundu with loose knot so interwoven throughout the five-meter rattan binding buffalo can spin freely.

Buffalo was tied around his neck and paraded seven times around the arena with sapundu axis. Residents were pulled over to avoid a buffalo that freely formed a circle around the audience with a diameter 15 meters.

One by one person on duty at the arena or a dagger stuck Badik long into the stomach of buffalo. Buffalo ran. However, because the neck bound rattan, the animal can only run around the arena.

At some point there was another officer who jabbed Badik. After punctured several times, the buffalo was too weak. Unsteady flight. That's when some people threw rollicking rattan rope slipknot lead to ensnare buffalo horns and legs until the animal fell. Buffaloes which are then slaughtered.

Ritual death

Thus the animal sacrifice which is one of a series of rituals wara. According to the Chairman of the Committee of Hindu Ritual Kaharingan Wara Village Kalahien Liharfin, wara is believed to be ritual death of a Hindu Kaharingan.

Based on Kaharingan Hindu belief, the spirits that have been in-wara's got a decent place in heaven.

In the implementation of the ritual in the village of wara Kalahien for the 49 souls, buffalo slaughtered 8, 2 cows, 45 pigs and 105 chickens.

The recitation of the Chairperson of the Central Kaharingan Hinduism Dual Inau Palangkaraya, in Hindu rituals Kaharingan, there are three important events diritualkan, the ceremonies of birth, marriage, and death.

"The last ceremony is a ritual of death called wara or tiwah. Wara is the meaning of liberation, purification, or improve, in a ritual or tiwah wara these ancestral bones buried in the soil removed and transferred to the trip (the same building houses a small stage).