ADAT ISTIADAT
Horja Siluluton
Batak Angkola’s Death Ceremony
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The boy who wears the happu or the crown of the King of Batak Angkola is the first grandson of the deceased for whom the horja siluluton is held. The Batak Angkola proverb says, habang halihi tinggal tungko or when the eagle has flown, only the pole is left - Yudhi Wisnu.
hen a member of the
Tapanuli region has been around since
Sibualbuali mountain valley still adhered
Batak Angkola indigenous
Ompu Palti Raja Siregar, King of Angkola
to the Ha-sipelebeguon (animism) belief.
community dies, they recite,
– Sipirok. The ritual was passed on to his
“habang halihi, stay tukko” (the eagle
descendants who then spread to Parau
flies, only the pole left). The ritual of the
Sorat, Baringin and Sipirok Godang. At
death of the people living in the Southern
the time, the people who inhabited the
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The Batak Angkola community, who was then predominantly Muslim, changed the traditional ceremony known as the
