Waruga, tomb stones in the Minahasa

Airmadidi. Merunut name, 'Airmadidi' means boiling water. The name given a nutritious hot springs clean skin. A place near the legendary Tomohona - about one hour from Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province - where there have been nine nymph bathing at full moon and one of them to lose their shirt can not be returned to heaven, I remind the legend Nawangwulan and Jaka Tarub Folklore in the treasury Java.

But my interest here is not bidadarinya, thus burying kunonya period. Precisely located in the area Airmadidi bottom. In this place, there are complex funeral pre-Christian or Christian period before entry to Manado, which is called waruga.
A box-box tomb made of stone and not planted in the ground, but placed on the terrain. Can be rectangular shapes or cubes, with a height of around 150 cm above the ground. On the roof be chiselled various decorative face that men, gods and the roof of the house.

According to local belief at that time, the person died must be 'returned' to the afterlife as its position in the womb. Until they do not lie recumbent, but made in conditions such as embryo, which is called the prison or foetal position.

Sort-order, and was purified clay charms and offerings. So diarak around the village three times symbolizing perpisahannya with the temporal world, and made its position as fetus and to include in its waruga goods kesehariannya assistants. Such as weapons or traditional peranti work. Also included gold jewelry and a variety of trusted he will remain in the new use later.

Society continues to use this area as a burial waruga relatives around them until the 17th century. Ended when the new Dutch government to ban the tomb when waruga with disease outbreaks, suspected of the colonists came from endeminya Jasad that is not buried in the ground.