{"id":35602,"date":"2012-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/newss\/vietnamese-fishermen-seeking-blessing-from-whales-to-provide-bountiful-catch"},"modified":"2012-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"vietnamese-fishermen-seeking-blessing-from-whales-to-provide-bountiful-catch","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/vietnamese-fishermen-seeking-blessing-from-whales-to-provide-bountiful-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese fishermen seeking blessing from whales to provide bountiful catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exclusively Vietnamese custom of people in certain fishing villages worshipping whales is certainly not a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in several villages from north to south Vietnam, temples are set aside to seek blessing from the whales and to invite them to help provide a bountiful catch for the year, according to Vietnam news agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>About 10,000 fishermen gathered in the southern province of Bac Lieu&#8217;s Hoa Binh district to join the first whale worship festival to be held in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been popular in coastal provinces from central Quang Binh southward because of a belief that the large sea mammals rescue people in danger and accompany them to shore.<\/p>\n<p>During the celebrations, residents with flags, drums and trumpets set out to sea in dozens of motor-boats in the early morning as a new temple, Duyen Hai drew crowds of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>At the junction of the sea and river, the fishermen&#8217;s orchestra reached a crescendo to invite passing whales to become official deities at the temple.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen also prayed that the whales would help them catch fish and bring prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day festival also hosted various artistic performances and folk games to entertain festival goers.<\/p>\n<p>2012 Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":28095,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[2177,2148],"region":[28],"source":[2272],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/35602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/35602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=35602"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=35602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}