The porhalaan (Batak calendar) written on a bamboo.
The Porhalaan is the traditional calendar of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Batak Calendar is a lunisolar calendar consisting of 12 months divided to 30 days with an occasional leap month. The Batak calendar is derived from Hindu calendar. The Batak people do not use the porhalaan as a mean to tell time, but rather to determine auspicious day, which is only used by the Batak shaman.
The Porhalaan is the traditional calendar of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Batak Calendar is a lunisolar calendar consisting of 12...
from the spirits of the ancestors, and an almanac or calendrical system (porhalaan), and astrology to determine auspicious days and months to accomplish...
days of the week, and hours of the day. This knowledge is known as the porhalaan, or the Batak calendar, which is curiously not used as a proper calendar...
is a more recent development of the tunggal panaluan. Naga morsarang Porhalaan Pupuk Sibeth 1991, p. 133. Avé, Hitchcock & Jay 2008, p. 23. Sibeth 1991...
with some knowledge of older beliefs. The Batak calendar, known as the porhalaan, consisted of 12 or 13 lunisolar months of 30 days each. The days were...
in the High God. Jacob van Campen. Tunggal panaluan, a magic staff with a container in which the pupuk may be inserted. Porhalaan, a Batak calendar....
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