{"id":4478,"date":"2011-04-08T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2011-04-12T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:03:46","slug":"the-cure-for-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2011\/04\/08\/the-cure-for-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The cure for rain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Brooke's Point Palawano family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Are you getting too much rain? That\u2019s easy to fix.<\/p>\n

Find the couple that\u2019s committing incest, kill them, cut their bodies in half and leave them to dry in the sun to appease the spirits.<\/p>\n

What, you didn\u2019t know that?<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t blame you. It\u2019s been years, the Brooke\u2019s Point Palawanos say, since they\u2019ve needed to do that. Usually they just tell the couple to stop, and they do, and the rain stops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in an area where time might seem like it stands still,\u201d 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 \u2013 and didn\u2019t know what radiation is.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the Palawanos, the biggest thing that is happening right now is that it is raining during dry season,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

So finding that couple that\u2019s committing incest, and getting them to stop, is important to them.<\/p>\n

George and Ginny and their teammates are learning the culture and language of the Brooke\u2019s Point Palawanos in order to soon share the message of salvation clearly with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brooke\u2019s Point Palawano people believe incest causes rain in the dry season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2716],"class_list":{"0":"post-4478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-palawano","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}