Villagers Honor Dead Relatives By Digging Up And Beautifying Them in this Weird Festival!

This unusual traditional festival on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia will leave you speechless. The MA’nene Festival is their ceremony of cleaning corpses, relatives of the dead bodies normally parade them in their place after cleaning and changing the clothes.

Although, the majority of the people of this place is Christians or Muslims, some of them still practice the ‘Aluk Todolo’ or ‘the Way of the Ancestors’. For them, death is just the starting step of going to spiritual life.

Torajans perform this old tradition act to keep their relatives' memories fresh as they wanted to show their pure heart with them.

The remains are rarely buried in the ground. Toraja uses a multiple of clothes to cover the whole body in order to avoid decaying, and they are placed inside the mountain stones. Babies buried inside the hallow living trees.

After three years of the people’s death, relatives have to dig up their love ones to change their clothes and clean them and parade their bodies in the area.