It is said that deceased relatives continue to live in our hearts and memory, but in the Indonesian village of South Sulawesi province, the deceased can literally be seen among the living. This ritual is called MaiNene, or the Ceremony for the Purification of Corpses. The essence of the ritual is that families of the Toraja peoples dig up the bodies of their deceased relatives, dress them in clean clothes and often display them in the place where they died, even the bodies of dead children are exhumed.
This is how it happens …
The Toraji believe that the spirit of a relative who died on a journey cannot find its way back to the village, to his family.
Therefore, after exhumation, the bodies of relatives are first carried to the place of death, and then on foot they carry the deceased to the village, as if accompanying them on their way home.
The skeleton of a deceased child in a dress with flowers.
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Not only is the ceremony so creepy, but also their dolls are frightening.
It is no wonder that you go crazy if you come to this place by accident. Indeed, in the understanding of a civilized person, corpses on display throughout the city are not normal.
Together again: the deceased couple are reunited again, standing on the street in new clothes.
The boy puts the body of a deceased relative in a coffin.
Despite the wildness of this action, the people of South Sulawesi treat their departed relatives with great respect.
True, it looks extremely frightening.
The bodies can be changed several times.
A graveyard for mummies, carved into the rock.