Culture events with 5-7 Purification & Atonement tag

Blood believe in gender

Edited May 22, 2023, 9:24 a.m. by Natalie

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7-11 Welfare & Assistance 5-7 Purification & Atonement 5-10 Rituals & Ceremonies

Burning weapons and baptism

Edited Jan. 30, 2023, 3:45 p.m. by Gerdine

Sibil gave us this text when we were working on samapim marota for Ulumos house...

5-14 Denominations & Sects 5-7 Purification & Atonement

Enos was sick for 3 weeks with a cough when it became serious resulting in shortness of breath, fever and mental confusion. Steve diagnosed it as pneumonia. Steve was told that the community had been up all night discussing how to finish Enos' heavy. Steve heard a suggestion that Enos had been a big...

3-8 Health & Sickness 5-7 Purification & Atonement

Shedding skin like a snake

Edited April 15, 2024, 12:07 p.m. by Steve

In follow up to talking about God's garden Kavaluku was talking about how we'll teach them the right way and they'll shed their skin like a snake and be new. He was using it as an illustration of repenting of sin. I started the recorder after he'd talked about the snake and...

5-7 Purification & Atonement

Spirit Spider

Edited May 10, 2023, 3:10 p.m. by Steve

Nuumee came on a medical day to have his wife, Makot, checked out. She had been bitten by a spider and was worried that his little brother, who recently died, had his spirit become a spider to poisen her due to being angry. I recorded his story and played it back to Silas and then Samwel (with Hulim...

5-7 Purification & Atonement 3-13 Cult of the Dead & After Death

The time when sanguma went away

Edited Dec. 31, 2021, 1:18 a.m. by Gerdine

Our team was asking questions about different bamboo types and their uses. One of them is used in pig Traps. Before these Traps were used to kill people too. Sibil then started talking in Tok Pisin about that time from what he remembered. He then gave this sto...