During our travel among these remote culture we asked ourselves several times which their daily concept of holy and profane were.
There were neither any bells ring among the sounds of villages, nor any Sunday call for gathering, which symbolize and fill our old spiritual tradition and social life.
There you find drums and a world thought when you were a kid, far away in time not only in space.
Kanganamo: a man is absorde in his thoughts watching the sunset while drums ehco in Palembei village, hidden on the other side of the river, in the middle green swamps of the Sepik, PNG.
Drums’ echo at sunset sounds the quick fall of the sun at the Equator: from the intense and almost tangible light to the complete dark. This deep cut dampens the village sounds while rustling raises for the wonder and alarm of foreign guests.
Wooden Idle simbolizing an Hornby, in the total obscurity which wraps in the village. There isn’t any artificial light in Yamok village – middle Sepik – PNG.
Men’s house or Clubhouse livens up with long moment of discussion among villagers (totally separated by female) wherein daily life issues gives room for long meditation which opens to ancestor traditions.
Our guide introduces us in the Men’s House or Clubhouse, right after the sunset, in its almost total darkness. There is no light, the scene is enlightened just by the flash. Yamok – middle Sepik – PNG.
“This is our tradition, our ancestors lifestyle, the way of being they taught us”. This statement of old man opens to a chat about spirituality, because magic practices still common and persist almost in every tribes, alongside Christian’s ones.
Idles placed in the centre of the Clubhouse, in the night darkness where eyes got used after, the scene must be enlightened by the flash. Yamok – middle Sepik – PNG.
The Village Representative of the Protestant Christian Church of the Middle Sepik explains that in PNG exists two opposing systems. Instead of disown their own culture, they colors the Christian religion with their Ancestral vision, where material wealth is strictly linked with men and women social relations and the cosmic spirits among them.