Baha Liurai
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 Night watch at the festival on the Baha Liurai |
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| height | 755 m | |
| location | Suco Babulo , Uato-Lari Administrative Office , Viqueque Municipality , East Timor | |
| Coordinates | 8 ° 46 '7 " S , 126 ° 34' 39" E | |
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| particularities | Sacred mountain of sucos | |
The Baha Liurai ( German mountain of the ruler ) is a hill in East Timor with a height of 492 m . It lies between the villages of Aha B Uu and Uatosoba . The village of Babulo is southwest.
The hill is venerated as sacred by the local population of Sucos Babulo ( Uato-Lari administrative office , Viqueque municipality , East Timor ). Ina ama , father and mother of the ancestors, are said to be buried here. You can only climb the hill in the company of the ritual authorities of sucos. Every seven to ten years the Baha Liurai festival takes place on it, at which a festival is celebrated on the hill of the region. The next festival will take place in 2025.
Web links
Commons : Baha Liurai Festival - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josh Trindade on Facebook: Baha Liurai (Sacred Hill) Ceremony , November 4, 2015 , accessed on November 5, 2015.
- ↑ Josh Trindade on Facebook: Baha Liurai (Sacred Hill) , March 14, 2009 , accessed on January 22, 2017.
- ↑ Susana Barnes: Origins, Precedence and Social Order in the Domain of Ina Ama Beli Darlari , In: Land and life in Timor-Leste, p. 23 ff.