Singing the Sky

A cargo cult is any of a group of religious movements in Melanesia, in the Southwestern Pacific, which believe that manufactured western goods (’cargo’) have been created by ancestral spirits and intended for Melanesian people. Cult members believe that white people, however, have unfairly gained control of these objects. Cargo cults thus focus on overcoming what they perceive as undue ‘white’ influences by conducting rituals similar to the white behavior they have observed, presuming that the ancestors will at last recognize their own and send them cargo. Thus a characteristic feature of cargo cults is the belief that spiritual agents will at some future time give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Enough with the negative depressing posts already! Finally I have something cool and positive to tell yall about. Husband (yes, things have much improved) turned me on to geocaching. It is wicked cool. You take a portable GPS system–it […]

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In the last hour, I heard something that made me grit my teeth and say a few unpleasant words within the hearing of Younger Son, which was not good.
I had to call Older Son’s father in order to get information for Older Son’s probation officer. Older Son’s father refused to give out his social security […]

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Younger son was enchanted when I opened up the old laptop to take it apart for future craft projects. He made me promise to let him have some so that he could make some stuff too. It almost made it worth it.

I think it looks like a city, which seems to be an appropriate metaphor, […]

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