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The Whale Rock

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Lamalera elders call the whale spirit in a traditional ceremony that took place from the mountaintop to the sea. How is it performed?

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Daleta gerojemaju daburkei
Taisa miosewao oli dia wato koteklema
(Thank you for giving good fortune to the Lamalera people who catch whales
Now come ye all to the whale rock)

AGUSTINUS Olak Fujon, 42, the seventh generation of the Fujon tribe, chanted those mantras while standing on the whale rock (wato koteklema). The huge rock resembling a whale rests at the foot of Labalekan hill, around 3 kilometers from Lamaleroa village on the southern

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