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Old Belief
← Minokawa
Three bossed brass gongs of different sizes propped against a plank wall with a small laced drum in front of them and padded mallets lying ready on the floor

the noise makers

The response across the islands is noise. The instruments are the ordinary ones a household or village already owns.

Basis: The eclipse response in Philippine tradition · AI-generated

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Full moon in total eclipse over a dark sea, the whole disc dim copper-red with a brighter rim at one edge, faint red light on the water belowthe moon half gone →Open sea running in low green swells to a hazy horizon under a pale overcast sky, a break of yellow light where the two meet, no land anywherethe eastern horizon →