Among the Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia, a major funeral can unfold over many days. An ethnographic account from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) records that the first day welcomes guests and that distinct groups enter the ritual field in a staged sequence according to locality, gender and rank.
This is not a service queue leading to a counter. It is a ceremonial order of reception through which relationships within the community become visible. The Atlas therefore presents it under Way C as a RELATED EVENT. It does not claim that guests or sacrificial animals stood in an ordinary line. Different worlds still share the need to understand who moves forward, and when.