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
On the evening before the burial they have another discussion runggu . In this runggu sukut discuss with their Anak beru. The first thing they discuss is the invitation. have
they already been delivered? How about the cow for a party dish, whether already prepared or not? Having completed the discussion if the died person is cawir metua then
the gendang nangkih implemented. The sequence of events on the night dancing is as the following :
• Landek sukut • Landek sukut sidarat
• Landek sembuyak • Landek senina siperen siparibanen sipengalon sendalanen
• Landek anak • Landek kalimbubu simada dareh
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• Landek kalimbubu tua • Landek kalimbubu sienterem
• Landek anak beru • Landek Anak Beru sipemeren
• Landek Anak beru menteri
3. 2. 3 Gendang adat nurunken kalak mate
On the next day, nurunken party is held. In the morning, all the families who died ngukati in the deceaseds house and kalimbubu gives the chicken as penayep to the family
of the deceased as a side dish. While Anak Beru, kalimbubu and other families ngukati in jambur. After they ngukati, the next event was meeting runggu about Perlandek and
what time lunch is made. When the corpse is right in front of the house gendang jumpa teruh is
implemented dancing sequence is as following: a.
Sukut, sembuyak, senina, sipemeren, sendalanen dance altogether. b.
Kalimbubu, puang kalimbubu, puang nu puang dance altogether c.
Anak beru, anak beru menteri, anak beru singikuri, dance altogether d.
Anak rumah dance altogether In Karo Jahe area, gendang teruh is not available. After the body was surrounded
by four times, it was brought to the Jambur.
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3. 2. 4 Gendang nangketken ose
If the person who died is man, he wore coat, beka buluh as bulang – bulang. But, if the person who died is woman, she wore kebaya, sheath and uis gara as tudung.
The clothes of the female who rose in Cawir Metua Ceremony are: -
wear the black kebaya or dark color. -
Wear tudung teger limpek. -
Jujung-jujungen beka buluh -
Langge-langge uis nipes -
Wear sheath as abit and kelam-kelam.
The clothes of the male who rose in Cawir Metua Ceremony are: -
wear the coat -
wear beka buluh as bulang – bulang. -
Wear cekok – cekok beka buluh -
Wear selempang or kadang – kadangen. -
The sheath is jongkit.
According to the Karonesse custom, the gendang is played without dancing. This one is dedicated to ancestral spirits. Now this gendang is called gendang persikapen as
for preparation. Then kalimbubu, sukut, anak beru and all who attend the party dance. The gendang that they play and dance for is called gendang nangketken ose. This
gendang is only exist if the dead is cawir metua. At this part all the children and
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grandchildren of the died person will diosei by kalimbubu simada dareh of each law permen to put ose on kela, their daughter and the grandchild at the same time. All the
rose, who wear ose, give cigarettes or betel to kalimbubu. Then the ritual is going on.
3. 2. 5 Gendang naruhken tudungen
