Are you getting too much rain? That’s easy to fix.
Find the couple that’s committing incest, kill them, cut their bodies in half and leave them to dry in the sun to appease the spirits.
What, you didn’t know that?
Well, I don’t blame you. It’s been years, the Brooke’s Point Palawanos say, since they’ve needed to do that. Usually they just tell the couple to stop, and they do, and the rain stops.
“We live in an area where time might seem like it stands still,” George and Ginny Olson wrote. The Olsons recently returned from a tribe to town, and asked people if they had heard about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. They had not. They had not heard about any radiation leak – and didn’t know what radiation is.
“To the Palawanos, the biggest thing that is happening right now is that it is raining during dry season,” the Olsons wrote. And the biggest impact of that is that they will not be able to grow rice this year. They cannot burn the fields, and the few who try to plant to will find their crop overwhelmed with weeds. Instead, they will grow cassava and sweet potato.
So finding that couple that’s committing incest, and getting them to stop, is important to them.
George and Ginny and their teammates are learning the culture and language of the Brooke’s Point Palawanos in order to soon share the message of salvation clearly with them.
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