{"id":777,"date":"2010-02-02T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:28:47","slug":"beach-offerings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Beach Offerings 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I went down to the beach at 7am this morning, armed with my camera, there was a trail of offerings to far out of sight all along the beach –\u00a0chooks, flowers, fruit especially\u00a0watermelon, broken up shrines, candles and some intact offerings punctuated with carnations and dahlias and other\u00a0flowers,\u00a0indicating I should have been there several hours earlier.\u00a0 Surely I didn’t miss the whole thing?\u00a0 \u00a0“Feb 2” is the date for the ceremonies honoring Imanja,\u00a0but perhaps it is the first tide after midnight or something -or maybe it’s all day, and so we we will wander down tonight around midnight to see if it is, or\u00a0whether I have missed it yet again, sigh\u00a0– I\u00a0might need to become a follower to know what’s going on when!<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t\u00a0even on to the beach when\u00a0I came across this one – certainly in a traffic area along a path\/highway – which is meant\u00a0to increase the strength\/value of the offering, I’m told.\u00a0 Refer to my previous post on this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As I mentioned, some devotees even launch their offerings into the sea:<\/p>\n

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but maybe the waves were a bit robust this year – these were some of the wrecked craft along the beach this morning.\u00a0 (dimensions\u00a0between\u00a01m and 1.75m)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Imanja likes blue the colour of the sea, and pretty, shiny things.\u00a0 There were two of these, 250m apart,\u00a0with identical contents and arrangement.<\/p>\n

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This little shrine, standing about 30cm high, may have been launched but ran aground without tipping over.\u00a0 I photographed each side, and then its location – note the dead chicken closer to the water, and the carnations strewn on the sand.<\/p>\n

So clearly there had been a lot of activity several hours before I and others turned up.\u00a0 I noticed lots of blue things along the tideline- blue tinted starfishes, real\u00a0and styrofoam shape; lots of blue giftwrap\u00a0 twirls and loopy decorations that in some cases were still attached to offerings or\u00a0boats(wrecks).\u00a0 There were little blue combs, blue candles, blue cellophane incorporated into plates of fruit,\u00a0and even a soggy sponge cake with icing that had been sprayed blue with some graphic iced onto it in brown\/chocolate?<\/p>\n

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I have no idea why a severed goat\/kid’s head, but the pic next to it\u00a0includes what looked like a pair of lacy black knickers in amongst the grain and fruit, and what looks like names on paper; The Virgin Mary in a small blue shrine was interesting, and in among the grain resting on intense blue tissue was the name and date “Jimena Vecanday, 18.06.1988”\u00a0 Twenty two years is a long time since whatever happened to that person on that day.\u00a0 And I was a bit underwhelmed by the group of young people who walked along collecting up mostly blue things – perhaps they were preparing their offerings for tonight but I thought it was a bit off to use something that has already been presented to Imanja, Queen of The Sea on her day.<\/p>\n

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When I went down to the beach at 7am this morning, armed with my camera, there was a trail of offerings to far out of sight all along the beach –\u00a0chooks, flowers, fruit especially\u00a0watermelon, broken up shrines, candles and some intact offerings punctuated with carnations and dahlias and other\u00a0flowers,\u00a0indicating I should have been there several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-cx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}