Dayak Lawangan Cultural Festival

Human beliefs are always guided by religious faith and culture. Borneo or Kalimantan island is a big land mass with various cultures and religious faiths.

Today I want to narrate one of cultural belief which I observed personally during staying the village.

It was a cloudy afternoon (18/10/2015) as the sun was under cover and also with smog that has hit some regions of Kalimantan during this period every year, resulting in many diseases, mainly with breathing problems from young to old.

So to perform local Dayak ritual, under the command of chief of adat to get rid of diseases, early monsoon, birth anniversary etc; a buffalo was tied on its neck with about 7 meter rope to pole, fixed at the center of a big community hall. As buffalo was tied so it could only move encircling the pole.

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