Waruga Stone

Waruga, the House will be destroyed by the Agency


Compass / agus susanto

If your lover Asterix comics, you certainly recognize the very capable Obelix carry sebongkah large stone megalitik behind the back. You can terkikik see ulah incompetent Obelix fond of eating itu.Tawa terkikik you will be amazed narrowly click switch does not believe, when you hear the story of how sacred and perkasanya ancient people who lived in the Minahasa megalitik time of up to 150-years ago in a northern peninsula Sulawesi island. They can be trusted to know when their lives will end, and with respect to the lift they own large chunk of stone to their graves.
With the right hand holding the stone disunggi in the head while walking to the place they set as the location of graves, their left hand to catch the fish in the river, with empty hands. After reaching the place they choose, the rock will be the grave of the pembawanya.

Grave stone measuring 50 cm wide and one meter, the length of 50 cm to one meter, and about one meter high called the waruga. Hollow stone blocks, and in the cavity that is the ancient people buried in Minahasa jongkok position. As the top cover, which is used cungkup carved berpahat information or profession or the dead body before death.

Cungkup berpahat or carved animals indicates that corpses buried in the waruga that during his life was a hunter. Cungkup motivated women who are giving birth marks the corpses buried in the waruga was during his life was a midwife. Meanwhile, some cungkup the pattern indicates that people at once buried in the waruga is a whole family, and buried the dead one by one.

There is also a plain cungkup, carving and sculpture without any. Cungkup plain waruga indicates that age is much older than other waruga, more than 1200 years. At those times, culture and carve carve cungkup profession with the information or not "ngetrend".

In each waruga, the corpse buried in a position jongkok on the property stock tombs, which can be a big knife, bracelets, beads, plates, rice, money gang, bowls, spoons, kolintang, and a few other things. However, there is now no longer stock items that can be grave found in waruga, because the things that have been secured in the museum.

In the ancient language Minahasa, said waruga is a combination of two words, namely Wale and maruga. Wale means home, and maruga means that the body will be destroyed. Meanwhile, the position jongkok corpses buried in the waruga closely related to the position of the baby in the womb jongkok mother. Filosofinya, the human life with jongkok position, and should end with a live jongkok too. In the local language, this philosophy is called whom.

In all around 1,700 Minahasa waruga spread in some complex waruga, which are concentrated in the north Minahasa. Most of the soldiers waruga is a grave war (waraney) and community leaders (walian). Two complex waruga largest complex waruga Airmadidi Down and complex waruga Sawangan. Both are in Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi.

At the bottom there is a complex Airmadidi 153 waruga, with waruga died termuda dated 26 July 1947. As many as 152 waruga park in line with a distance of 10 inter-waruga about 2-3 meters. A waruga largest stand alone in the front, on a permanent pendopo. Waruga is grave opo Wagiu titled Timani Oeng Koemelemboeai, which means in the language Tonsea inventor of the village's water shed in the land-which was then called Airmadidi.

The local people believe, opo Wagiu was one of nine dotu (Toar Lumimuut envoy, the ancestor of the Minahasa). Watu in Pinawetengan, Toar Lumimuut ordered ninth dotu to spread to the region for nine each to lead a tribe. However, to date not a single official who is also a record ninth dotu just that.

According to Johan Mandagi, interpreter lock complex waruga Airmadidi found the bottom end of April, to 153-waruga is still in the initial position when waruga-waruga found that, without changes and move the location. Restoration in 1998 only to take stock of these graves, which are stored in the museum which is located on the complex waruga.

Now, the only waruga opo Wagiu the stock still has grave.

At the museum, which made the pickup (in the form of a wooden house), things have only historical kresek plastic wrapped black and digeletakkan on the floor. Among the items taken stock of the grave waruga that, Johan shows indicate the number of gang money year 1650.

There are no fences that encircle the museum, there is no glass shelves for memajang historic objects, and there is no electricity to illuminate the museum. "I believe there KKN (corruption, collusion and nepotism) in the restoration of 1998. Ngana Try to see yourself, the goods are not maintained. If the night darkness. Let alone, if people lost stolen, torang have a reason ... out the dark, what more? " said Johan, who has 23 years to become an interpreter in the key there.

In addition, to Johan, complex waruga not have latrines, as promised at the beginning of the restoration project. "Tourists come-tourist numpang should dispose of water in the house of a resident, loans de pe toilet. If so steadily, making it the toh?" sambungnya.

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SEKITAR four kilometers from the complex waruga Airmadidi Down, there are complex waruga not maintained in Kelurahan Raprap. There stood 33 waruga, most of which have been closed ilalang and honeysuckle. From cow dung is still wet to dry berserak already here and there. A barbed wire fence waruga complex that is already inclined and disorganized. Among waruga-waruga that, there are waruga berukirkan name opo Mingki Koemekoko. That is the only one that has waruga name.

According to local youth named Kris Karamoy, local government and citizens Raprap not take waruga it. "Previously, there Opa Maxi Wenas that the waruga-waruga this. Sepeninggal Opa Maxi 2001, which does not have them. The devout worship here, so it does not take waruga-waruga this. Waruga considered to be related to things mystical," he said .

According to Kris, waruga-waruga in Kelurahan Raprap is waruga-waruga in Minahasa. Initially, waruga-waruga is in District Airmadidi. Just around the year 1970 waruga-waruga was collected in Keluarahan Raprap. "It was the initiative of Governor hv Worang, who have great concern to the ancient customs Minahasa," said Kris.

Although already devout worship and it is the reason local people neglect waruga complex that, to this day people still believe Kelurahan Raprap will savor parasite that grows on trees Dudi. Parasite can only grow on trees Dudi, who have exactly the waruga opo Mingki. Parasite that is not found on other trees around the tomb complex of stone, which is dominated by trees and duku-complexioned.
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Unlike the complex Airmadidi Down, complex waruga Sawangan following museumnya is already well. If you think the name Sawangan are associated with a region that is also called Sawangan in Bogor (West Java), you are correct. Sawangan name in the Bogor is derived from the name Sawangan in Minahasa, which means living gotong royong. Local leaders who called Jusuf Mantiri who brought to Bogor Sawangan name, making it as the name of a region of rain in the city.

In the complex waruga Sawangan waruga there are 144, including waruga Jusuf Mantiri a glass wall. Interpreters key Sawangan waruga complex, a large well-named Olce Kambong explain, to the 144-waruga that come from places different. Waruga-waruga is collected and incorporated in the government complex in the year 1817.

With fluent Olce explain, starting from 1800 corpses in funeral waruga prohibited the government, because at that time began to spread typhoid and cholera. "Feared, the seedlings died transmit typhus and cholera, through which there is a rift between the agencies waruga and cungkup waruga. At the same time also, the Christian religion that requires a dead body buried in the ground began to spread in Minahasa," he said.
In Sawangan, there is still waruga bercungkup plain (no carving and sculpture), which is aged around 1200 years. Meanwhile, the cungkupnya motivated waruga aged 400-500 years. One of the waruga there have motives cungkup women are giving birth. "That does not mean the corpses died at birth, but throughout his life he was a midwife (midwife). Until now, mothers are often difficult to obtain offspring berziarah in waruga midwife, and given the ease of seeking to get the child.

Many terkabul application, "said Olce.
You can imagine how perkasanya midwives, a woman walking the cobblestone sebongkah to kuburnya own?