CHAPTER 3 CAWIR METUA PRACTISED BY KARO SOCIETY
3. 1 What does Cawir Metua Mean?
We do not know when someone dies, and death came like a thief, nobody knows. Death does not know age. Death can occur at the age of baby, teenager, middle-aged, and
perhaps also at an older age.. In Karo society although the deceased was old, but if heshe has still a child was not married so heshe could not say as Cawir metua. There are many
kinds of the death in Karonese, they are:
1. Cawir Metua Cawir metua is ceremony is practiced by Karo people for a person who die after all of
their children get married. For the instances, they do not pay attention to the age of the dead people. The married statues of the children is the measurement.
2. Tabah – tabah Galuh If the age of the deceased has not old, but hisher children have been married sai utang.
3. Mate Nguda If the age of the deceased were young and has not married, or the deceased have been
married, but hisher children have not married. We can conclude Cawir metua ceremony is practiced by Karo people for a person
who die after all of their children get married. For the instances, they do not pay attention to the age of the dead people. The married statues of the children is the
measurement.
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3. 2 The Ongoing Cawir Metua
Talking about Karonese, many things we can discussed. Karonese have many ceremony in their life, such as:
1 Wedding ceremony
2 Funeral ceremony
3 Ceremonial entrance of new house
4 Nengget ceremony
5 Maba anak ku lau ceremony
6 Cabur Bulung ceremony
7 Ngembahken Nakan ceremony
8 Erpangir Ku lau ceremony
9 Perunah begu ceremony
10 Ndilo Wari udan ceremony
11 Kerja tahun
12 etc.
But in this paper, I would like to limit the discussing only about Cawir Metua Ceremony in Karo Society. There are the sequence of the implementation of Cawir metua
Ceremony in Karo society :
3. 2. 1 Runggu
The first thing we do if Karonesse died is to call all sangkep nggeluh, such as Sembuyak, Senina, Sipemeren, Siparibanen, Kalimbubu, Anak beru, and Anak beru
Menteri to discuss runggu preparation of the Cawir metua ceremony. Runggu was implemented by all relatives outside of the home from the death until in the afternoon.
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The local community anak kuta also attended the meeting as a listener usually will help in organizing the ceremony. Meeting is to discuss of the determination of
ceremony, when the corpse will be buried , the location of burial, and the technical needs of the ceremony with the division of duties. Requirements regarding the provision of
technical equipment such as the ritual: providing a casket, rental equipment of music players and instruments eat dishes or food for the people who attending ceremonies, who
will be invited, how the party will be held, whether the children and grandchild rose or not. Then Anak beru prepare assignments to deliver the invitation, inventory who will be
rose and Kalimbubu simaba ose. Looking for the cow for a party dish, and others.
3. 2. 2 Gendang Nangkih
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