Angga
Pamona · numen · Pamona traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Angga is the soul of a dead person as it survives the body — the shade that departs at death and travels to the land of the dead. Distinguished from the tanoana, the detachable life-soul of the living, the angga is what remains once life has ended; the mortuary rites of the Bare'e Toradja, culminating in the great secondary death-feast, are directed at speeding and settling it in the realm of the dead. Sources describe the angga as retaining the character and needs of the living, requiring provisioning and eventually joining the ancestral dead.
Domains
- death
- afterlife
Powers
- survives the body as the shade of the deceased
- journeys to and settles in the land of the dead
Sources
- The angga is the surviving death-soul, distinct from the living person's tanoana, and the object of Bare'e mortuary ritual as it travels to the land of the dead: N. Adriani & Alb. C. Kruyt, De Bare'e-sprekende Toradja van Midden-Celebes (1912–1914/1950) (primary); R. E. Downs, The Religion of the Bare'e-speaking Toradja of Central Celebes (1956) (secondary)