Palue's Animism


Summer usually lasts around 7-8 months, namely from April / May to October / November. The markets that are often visited are the Ropa & Alok markets and other markets in the Maumere area. The name of the clan/descendant group is Cinde Pima, which is related to immigrants from Bima, and the Kimalaya clan, which is associated with the Himalayas.

Stefan Danerek reviewed that the Palue people, like many other tribes in NTT, adhered to animist beliefs until the 20th century, and that view still persists. Belief in the highest being leads the Palue people to continue to honor their ancestors, who are believed to be intermediaries for humans to the highest being. The Palue people greatly appreciate the customs and traditional values ​​inherited from their ancestors.

Their beliefs are based on an asymmetrical binary worldview of the yin/yang type where everything is lived by the spirit of the ruler of the universe, Hera Wula, Watu Tana. Respect for ancestors is clearly visible in the various traditional rites that are carried out. Belief in ancestral spirits is actualized through several ceremonies & traditional rites, such as the tu teu traditional rite, the tata liba traditional ceremony, the nedi ngawu, and the pati karapau traditional rite.

Villages that perform the tu teu traditional ceremony include Reruwairere, Maluriwu, Kesokoja, and Lidi villages. The tu teu traditional ceremony is carried out every five years, depending on the situation where the number of rat pests increases and damages residents' crops. It is usually carried out at the beginning of the planting season / the west wind season, which is around January / February.

The rats are believed to be the incarnation of the angry ancestral spirits because they are not being paid attention to & not being appreciated. Several prohibitions / bhije begin to be enforced for 3 days. In addition, the Palue community greatly appreciates the customs & traditional values ​​inherited from their ancestors.

This is because, as explained by Stefen Danerek, there is a myth that the rice loaded from the land of Lio by the ancestors spilled into the middle of the sea on the way back to Palue. The ancestral tradition that prohibits planting rice is strongly maintained throughout the Palue island area. Violations committed by individuals or groups, in our opinion, are a transcendent conflict between humans and their ancestors as the highest form. In addition, belief in ancestral spirits is usually actualized through several traditional ceremonies, such as the tu teu & tata liba traditional ceremonies and the pati karapau traditional rites which will be reviewed in detail in the next article.

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