Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Traditional whaling at Lamalera village

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Traditional whaling at Lamalera village

A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post

Lamalera village in Lambata island, East Nusa Tenggara, is reportedly the only place in the country that is home to traditional whalers, known locally as Lamafa.

Using wooden sailing boats on the Sawu sea, a lamafa jumps from the boat and stabs the whale with a bamboo harpoon that has a sharp steel tip. The whaler spears the mammal several times.

The whaling tradition was established hundreds of years ago even before Catholic missionaries entered the province in the 1500s.

To mark the beginning of the whaling season, which runs from May through August, the villagers hold traditional rituals to commemorate their ancestors and bless their lamafa.

Religion came and changed the rituals into two mass prayers: an evening requiem for the ancestors and lamafa who have died during whaling in the Sawu sea, and a morning mass to bless the whalers.

A rule in the village says that lamafa are forbidden from killing blue whales since they are considered friendly to humans.

"There was a legend that a blue whale once helped our ancestors from drowning in the sea," said Abel O Beding, a tribal village leader.

According to a recent survey carried out by the World Wide Fund for Nature (Indonesia), among 27 species of whale in the world, 11 are found in the Sawu sea, including blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) and sperm whales (Physeter macrochepalus).