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Pasola Festival: Horse Sumba, Javelin, and Love Story

Sumba horses are small but sturdy muscular neigh shouted to be heard by hundreds of his flock who are in a vast meadow. Breezy scent of dry grass mixed with other names reminiscent of Sumba, the Sandalwood island that has been renowned for hundreds of years. When the thundering herd of horses legs while thrilling tens savannas javelin fly, breath the audience is suspended, awaiting the end of the javelin and the shot targets malignant. Escaped from a nameless rider, the audience was boisterous off relief and amazement.

Pasola Festival: Horse Sumba, javelin, and Love Story

To complement the extreme side of your courage, prepared in February to the area or Lamboya Kodi, and in March in the Wanakoka. This craziness happening only in one agenda, namely Pasola Festival, on the island of Sumba, eastern Nusa Tenggara.

Rato choose a day full of blessings for Pasola, a word that begins with the javelin, known as the 'sola' or 'hola' in their local language. But after the bear became 'Pasola', the meaning was changed to 'game'. It's also often claimed, Pasola keep pace in the land of sorrow bidder Sumba as a game; grief over the loss of an ancestral soul mates.

That said, an indigenous leader named Umbu Dulla of Waiwuang, West Sumba, traveling with two other traditional leaders, and Yagi Ngongo Masusu Waikareri Tau. Kaba Wednesday to leave his wife for some time, Umbu Dulla reportedly drowned in ferocious seas. Sadness struck Wednesday Kaba, until one day a man named Teda Gaiparona of Kodi, western peninsula of the island of Sumba, can melt the old love Kaba Wednesday froze. Both were hit by love and intend to marry.

Unfortunately, the family did not approve of them. So Wednesday Kaba and Teda going to elope. The days turned into weeks to come Umbu Dulla with two friends from overseas, abort the rumors of their death. Residents were comparable to the horrors of grief that forced Umbu Dulla state that his wife had run off with Teda. But not angry Umbu Dulla though a request to return was honored Wednesday Kaba.

Inner pressure of the beautiful Wednesday Kaba rising, squeezed by a love for Teda and her story as the wife of an endless Umbu Dulla certainty. This dilemma was finally closed with a request Wednesday to the Kaba Teda to replace belis, offering family Umbu Dulla melamar.Menyanggupi belis the first time to be replaced, Teda finally approved for legally married to Wednesday Kaba, by society and especially Umbu Dulla.

To banish sadness, Umbu Dulla ordered the holding of a party which is now known as Pasola, a sense of celebration for a bountiful harvest sukur after arrest Nyale, marine worms are always cheerful and inviting thanks to the Nusa Tenggara. Pasola since the day it became a tradition and a continuation of the party agenda Nyale smell, look for sea worms which actually represents the loss of a lover's solace heart Umbu Dulla, the Kaba Wednesday.

Sumba island not far from Komodo, Flores, and East Timor. Wangameti the highest mountain (1,225 m) presents the story of sandalwood is valued by the merchants and different faiths. Hindus and Buddhists from China and Japan use it for the scent of fragrant incense and substitute antibiotic treatment. Muslims make a wooden rosary bead is captivating.

As land in Australia and southern Africa, the island of Sumba describe the colors that do not generally available at camera lens captured. Marapu ancient animistic beliefs or cultural traditions Pasola complement, namely the many offerings of animals or statues or penjiyang rarely seen after the entry of Christianity on the island. Set foot in Sumba are the ideals that should be done as long as you still had time to explore.

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