Secondary Burial System of the Ngaju, Maanyan and Lawangan: Comprasion Data for Analysis of Religion

by Retno Handini

Abstract

The traditional life of the Ngaju, Maanyan and Lawangan in Central Kalimantan is observably intriguing, specifically in regard to its religious aspect. The religious life of the Kaharingan adherents is effectively based on a prehistoric belief system concerning the concept of spirit worshipping in particular. This circumstance is obviously manifested on the secondary burial system that is still practiced up until now by the Ngaju, Maanyan and Lawangan. Despite the differences in vernacular and procession of the secondary burial between the three communities, the essence is yet the same i.e. as means of transportation to attain spiritual completness in its eternal place.

(Source: Naditira Widya Number 7, November 2001:90-98; ISSN 1410-0932)