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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (284)	2/17/2001 4:21:39 PM
From: Puna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 582

Thanks for posting that. It was provocative information. I was aware of the recent tests from the spear-points & earplug age testing but the rest was all to new to me and well written. While offshore alongside various whales I sometimes wondered if that individual had witnessed its parents being taking in a hunt many decades before; or perhaps had been attacked themselves and carried the memory or even a broken spear point. "Bowheads are reasonably social, intelligent animals. There are a lot of complexities about their social structure that we don't yet appreciate," Morgan said. "It may be that long-living individual whales accumulate knowledge about where to fish or how to avoid danger that is useful to the species as a whole. Perhaps they pass that knowledge on to younger members." Some Native legends claim that whales were old & wise and carried the knowledge & records of the past- not just the recent past but the very distant histories as well. Many coastal native tribes relied to some extent on whale meat/blubber for sustenance. Having lived among these peoples and also studied & participated in some of their rich cultural practices, I am aware they both pursued & hunted the whale and at the same time revered & respected it as a unique special creature; as demonstrated through their songs, stories & whale ceremonies. The legends and practices claim to be able to speak to the whale on a higher spiritual level. Gifted native clans-people could also understand the whale’s vocalizations and the whale’s spiritual voice. This information was said to contain knowledge of whale generations; not just where a good place to feed was last year, but of their family history all the way back from the beginning of the species. Having spent a lot of time with both whales and these coastal tribes, I have come to believe much of this as true and that us contemporary humans are only now beginning to get a glimpse of just how little we know or understand of the greater complexities of Life. The scientific and the spiritual seem to keep meeting on common ground the closer we look. Puna