Lamoa

Lamoa is the old worship of the god Pue Mpalaburu among the Bare'e people of Central Sulawesi. Its rite, the Molamoa, was a circle dance known as Dero or Modero, held when a village's warriors came home from battle and when the war leaders, the tadulako, returned from headhunting.

The Bare'e taught that skulls taken in this way warded off misfortune such as a failed harvest, and the dance was performed around them in the middle of the ceremonial house, the lobo.

In the days of the Tojo kingdom, in 1770, Lamoa still kept its original form as the mark of the Bare'e. Pilewiti, the first king of Tojo, took over its customs and slowly brought the Bare'e into Islam, and the Dutch East Indies later banned the worship of Pue Mpalaburu.