Learn Mount Bromo volcano hungry!

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Volcano Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is considered one of the most active volcanoes. It is also a popular tourist destination because possessed of breathtaking natural sights. However, this mountain, which is home to 90,000 residents of Tangris indigenous people living on the slopes for, they are an ethnic minority Hindu has an annual festival weird.


Although volcanic eruptions in this mountain, but hundreds of Tangris population they gather around the crater of this mountain in the annual religious festival, dubbed the "Yadonia Kasadh" and throwing food offerings of fruits, vegetables and livestock such as goats and chickens and even cows, this tradition lasts about a month Full.



"Yadonia Kasadh" Festival, is a festival held on the fourteenth of the month Kasadh in traditional Hindu lunar calendar. This ceremony is held to honor Sang Hyang and his hands, the great king, and is based on the ancient legend of the RoRo Ontig and Joko Seger. According to Onderfl Indonesia
Legend has it that there are a couple claim RoRo Ontig and Joko Seger did not have children after long years of marriage. Therefore, they they made a point of meditation on Mount Bromo summit, and pray to the gods of the mountains for help. After that erased 24 children on the condition that a child of 25 should be thrown into the volcano human sacrifice.
According to the customs and traditions of the sacrifices of the volcano progress to this day to appease the gods, but without the human sacrifices. Instead, it is chicken, goats and vegetables thrown into the pit as a sacrifice.



When the fall of Majapahit fled and sought refuge to the upper slopes of Mount Bromo. Although the majority of Java's population converted to Islam, but still, this unique community clings to the ancient beliefs of the days of the Majapahit until today. Like the Hindu island of Bali, residents Tangris worship "Ida Sang Hyang and my hands and Lhasa," along with the Trimurti, Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.
The provision of such offerings for thanks to the abundance of agricultural and animal products. Sometimes some of the locals come down to the bottom of the pit despite the obvious risks, to retrieve a sacrifice, believing it brings good luck to them.


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