TORAJAN DEATH TRIBE (UNCUT SCENES)

First time ever I’m subscribed to Patreon, all for you Mike. You really inspire me. As a creator and as a person. Having just buried my Mum few months ago, a really painful experience that I may never get out of, would soon be marking her 1 year passage and I will be travelling to experience how death is celebrated in other cultures, just like your into to this video. Thank you Mike. I want to learn more from you, if you have a one on one class/mentorship - I would like to subscribe.

Totally wild 😁. Thank You for show us Mike.

All true Jose. Pretty wild experience right?

Machete to the heart works best I guess. A very thick skull make sit hard to kill quickly.

Mike man, It,s extremedly thorough that video oposite than as video of YouTube. I had understan these bulls aré companious to guide the deceased to the afterlife. Is that the true Bro?. So It's very simbolic, when I was child had seen the animales sacrifices. But that cultural event I impacted me a lot. I want to know very much It there with you. I wanted to know a lot about that but now there I with You Bro.

I guess I am just confused why they wouldn't just kill the buffalo sooner and he had to suffer for so long. Just a quick stab between the eyes would have ended it.

Incredible Vang! Do the Hmong also use hanging coffins?

In my culture, the Hmong culture, we also sacrifice water buffalos, or cows if you live in the U.S. as they are meant to serve as a mount for souls in the spirit realm as they navigate their ways back to our ancestral lands in China. The way of killing them is very different from ours as since Hmong people have taken refuge in the U.S. we just shoot them, but back in Asia, we usually tie them up and kill them with multiple hits to the head with an axe. The blood is a food source so there is no slicing of the neck. Overall, incredible video.

Exactly Nani! 🐉

honestly to most people this is disgusting but i love seeing different country's and tribes' way of doing things and this has video explained so much and put a different way of seeing death and the things they do in the process of things,

The same way we eat in our country United States we just don't have the ceremonies to go with it eating what you need to survive that God said to eat

Totally was. The strongest buffalo earn more at the market, and also win bets for the owner.

Many times such fighting amongst animals staged by humans has gambling and wagering on the winner of the contest involved. Is any gambling involved here?

Thank you for being here John! You nailed it!

Exactly right? There's much more appreciation there in Toraja, but it's all in your face. It's easy to get confused that it's worse.

A beautiful comment and insight Bob!

Happy you liked this Kane. A tough one!

Was it hard to watch? Yes. Did it represent a truth of a way of life of our fellow species? Yes. Traveling definitely broadens our concepts and understanding of what it means to be human and live as we do. We cannot judge without first examining our own rituals and comforts that may be seen as equally appalling or confusing. Thank you for sharing and continuing to bring raw content of reality to our senses.

Great video. Thank you for sharing

I do agree with your statement about seeing the truth! I don’t have the strength to know the process of how I was served a beef burger. We get our food all nice and ready to go but we never think about the animals sacrificed in a slaughter house. This was so interesting to watch and Im grateful that they at least treat their buffalo like royalty before death. Thank you for the video!

For me, it is so important to leave my judgment and Euro-American values at the door while watching something as 'sacred' as this. This is just another example of how many different ways we as a species have tried our best to fathom the mystery of life and death. This explains to me the wealth of imagination and creativity to ingest the mystery of what we spend so little time thinking about, talking about, feeling. How are the prominent stories of the 'modern civilizations' any more resolving of this mystery than what the Torajan of Indonesia embrace as their truth? Until we step across that threshold will we, if ever, discover the mystery. Thank you for the introduction to another glimpse into the interpretation of how our species attempts to make sense of this journey that we call life.

Thanks man. You commented here before it went live on YouTube! This version is... ahh... condensed... content-wise and emotionally.

Wow…intense but educational. Thank you for taking us out of our comfort zones and allowing us to experience life and death in other parts of our world.

Matt H.