{"id":5905,"date":"2024-10-18T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/?page_id=5905"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:03:15","slug":"the-lost-link","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/en\/le-lien-perdu\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LOST LINK"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5905\" data-postid=\"5905\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5905 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-css_id=\"391g322\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_391g322 tb_first tf_w\">\n            <span  class=\"builder_row_cover tf_abs\" data-lazy=\"1\"><\/span>            <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_42i2322 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_gv9w725    wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3>For thousands of years, humpback whales have maintained lasting ties with humans living near the coast. All over the world, they seek to get closer to humans, to share moments, to swim together, to exchange their songs, except in the Caribbean...<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_nlnj255    hide-mobile wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">But why?\u00a0<\/h1>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_lecn994    hide-desktop hide-tablet hide-tablet_landscape wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1 style=\"text-align: right;\">But why?\u00a0<\/h1>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"ifk0416\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_ifk0416 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_middle tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_6cj4416 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_y5ch363 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-653\" title=\"Saint-Brandan-2\" alt=\"Saint-Brandan-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_36zu836 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_q94e961\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3>How can we explain this phenomenon?\u00a0<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_u52o382\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>To understand this, we need to place the relationship between whales and indigenous peoples in a context dating back thousands of years. When Europeans explored the North in the 10th century, they were fascinated by the links between the natives and the whales. Medieval literature described the Arctic as a land inhabited by \u00abmonstrous fish\u00bb and people capable of magically summoning them.<\/p>\n<p>Even the accounts of explorers and missionaries, describing the hunting and sharing of whales, were tinged with mysticism. In 1938, anthropologist Margaret Lantis spoke of a \u00abcircumpolar whale cult\u00bb among the I\u00f1upiat, Inuit and other northern peoples, proving this link through taboos and rituals. A killed whale was often given fresh water, a meal and even travel bags to ensure its spiritual return. Every whaler had songs to attract them, and shamans held religious ceremonies in whalebone circles. Amulets, handed down from father to son, reinforced this mysterious relationship, incomprehensible to non-native observers, especially scientists, who resisted anything anthropomorphic.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"t4av567\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_t4av567 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_middle tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_xll2567 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_f17e567 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-654\" title=\"whale-petroglyph1\" alt=\"whale-petroglyph1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_bgaq922 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-655\" title=\"whale-petroglyph2\" alt=\"whale-petroglyph2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_1mgy567 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_pc97567\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3>The mysticism of northern peoples and their sacred link with whales<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_fyor842\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><span style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0;\">Along some Alaskan coasts, the rocks are covered with petroglyphs of men and whales.<br>They were carved by whaling shamans as part of rituals that enabled them to acquire the secrets of the sea and offer thanks for its generosity.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_101t339\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>In archaeology, such attitudes have limited our understanding of Arctic prehistory,\" explains Erica Hill, zooarchaeologist at the University of Alaska Southeast. Whaling amulets and bone circles have been seen as ritualistic or supernatural, with little understanding of what they meant to the people who created them. Instead, archaeologists who have studied animal artifacts have often focused on the tangible information they have revealed about what ancient peoples ate, how many calories they consumed and how they survived.<br>Hill is part of a growing branch of archaeology that uses ethnographic narratives and oral histories to re-examine animal artifacts with fresh eyes and interpret the past in new, non-Western ways. \u00abIt interests me as part of our prehistory as humans,\" says Hill, \"but also in what it tells us about other ways of being.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that indigenous peoples have spiritual relationships with animals is so well established in popular culture that it's a clich\u00e9. Yet, constrained by Western science and culture, few archaeologists have examined the record of human history from the perspective that animals feel emotions and can express these emotions to humans.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"d8ar900\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_d8ar900 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_jo3y900 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_yzt3353\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col-full tb_9qdv353 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5zpq913\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Tinglits of North West America, the Aborigines of South East Australia, the Maoris of Kaikoura, the Mayumba people of West Africa, the Hawaiians, the Polynesians and many others have forged powerful ties with these whales over thousands of years, based on respect and often exchange.<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_ee7o577\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_xqpu577 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_qpfi577\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The exchange<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_8kq2577\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whale song can be found in the shamanic chants of the peoples who have listened to them for thousands of years, but human melodies can also be found in whale song...<br><br>(see The search for the lost music of the Kalinagos )<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_x9bt577 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_1a7z577\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Respect<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_y6b8771\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Tinglits in particular consider them as such, and eating their flesh is likened to cannibalism. The Hawaiians call them \u00abKoholas\u00bb, the goddesses of the sea, who are surrounded by an immense sphere of Mana, pure energy, the guardian of spirituality.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"x8do598\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_x8do598 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_39k2598 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_ebrc598\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_t9hs598 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_4f6t685 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-5946\" title=\"1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman\" alt=\"1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_9hzr598 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_qsqh598\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">The lost Caribbean link<\/h3>\n<p><br>In the Caribbean, the pre-Columbian peoples certainly had these same links with the humpback whales, who considered these peoples as their family, until 1492...<\/p>\n<p>In 1492, the arrival of the Europeans sounded the death knell for these civilizations: Kalinagos, Caraibes, Ta\u00efnos, Arrawaks, these peoples were gradually exterminated or assimilated, their culture and spirituality wiped out. The whales were traumatized by the genocide of their \u00abfamily\u00bb. From then on, they developed a legitimate mistrust of the \u00abnew\u00bb humans who now populate the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Lavagne de Castellan<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_knox54\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_znve54 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_b20q54 image-top   auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-658\" title=\"0129.DR-jlh-637.568\" alt=\"0129.DR-jlh-637.568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_0sww54 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_267y54\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Taino rock painting (Dominican Republic 4000 years ago) depicting a humpback whale.<br><br><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The position of this whale cannot be observed from the surface. It is arched, with pectorals at rest, characteristic of a socializing whale, and the person who painted this whale, perhaps 4000 years ago, was used to working with it underwater...<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"0x08934\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_0x08934 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_zes6934 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_pmzf935\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col-full tb_x87g935 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_emcb935\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Our mission is to renew this link<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Musical interaction with the humpback whales of the Caribbean is the key to renewing the dialogue with these animals... recreating the link.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_9xg4934\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_yg44935 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wsan238\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h5>The three main areas of work :<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shelltone Whale Project team communicates daily with Guadeloupe's humpback whales using Shelltone, gradually establishing a musical dialogue. This music helps to create an intimate relationship and re-establish ties with these cetaceans.<\/li>\n<li>We are preparing to form an orchestra of young musicians who will learn the music of the whales and then take them out to sea to play with them.<\/li>\n<li>We're going to meet musicians and scientists from other Caribbean islands where humpback whales live, to initiate multidisciplinary exchanges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_n5nj707 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_4hd0707\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h5>Learning whale music at the Petit Bourg music and dance school:\u00a0<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>This year, the Petit Bourg music school, in collaboration with Shelltone Whale Project, is offering its students whale singing and music sessions.<\/li>\n<li>Each student in this \u00abformation\u00bb plays the instrument he or she usually works on, and Pierre Lavagne de Castellan teaches the students the melodies of the whales.<\/li>\n<li>Students compose their own song inspired by whale song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_9r1l634\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col-full tb_own9634 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6xbn634\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">The idea is that, in time, young musicians will be able to play with humpback whales, on a catamaran specially designed for inter-species communication. Using music as a vector of communication, we hope to renew the link between humans and whales in Guadeloupe and throughout the Caribbean.<br><br>Guadeloupe is thus on the way to becoming the first island in the world where children play music with the whales that inhabit its waters, inter-species communication elevated to an art form... A sharing and mutual recognition that is destined to be perpetuated from generation to generation...<\/h5>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"2pfp160\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_2pfp160 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_zgh8160 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_hap2160\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3>The search for the lost music of the Kalinagos...<\/h3>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_zlxk160\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>For thousands of years, humpback whales have been inspired by the music of the people who live along the coasts of the areas they frequent. They have built up their musical repertoire in collaboration with these people. They then use this repertoire to transmit proteodic songs from generation to generation, which they use for the functions we are developing here. However, in the Caribbean, the pre-Colombian populations of the Ta\u00efnos, Arrawacs, Car\u00efbes, Kalinagos... have practically all been decimated. Only in Dominica do descendants of this population remain. The trauma of the invasion of their territory, the genocide they suffered and the colonization they subsequently underwent caused them to lose most of their culture, including their music.<\/p>\n<p>Humpback whales, however, have preserved this music, which they still pass on, play and use to convey proteodic songs from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the aims of Shelltone Whale Project is to recover this music from the songs of the whales of the Caribbean, and hand it down to the Kalinago people still living in Dominica.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"30mu700\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_30mu700 tf_w wow\" data-tf-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column 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Partout dans le monde, elles cherchent \u00e0 se rapprocher des hommes, \u00e0 partager des moments, \u00e0 nager ensemble, \u00e0 \u00e9changer leurs chants, sauf dans les Cara\u00efbes&#8230; Mais pourquoi&nbsp;? Mais pourquoi&nbsp;? Comment expliquer ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne&nbsp;? Pour comprendre, il [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5905","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<h3>Depuis des mill\u00e9naires, les baleines \u00e0 bosse entretiennent des liens durables avec les humains vivant pr\u00e8s des c\u00f4tes. Partout dans le monde, elles cherchent \u00e0 se rapprocher des hommes, \u00e0 partager des moments, \u00e0 nager ensemble, \u00e0 \u00e9changer leurs chants, sauf dans les Cara\u00efbes...<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">Mais pourquoi ?\u00a0<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: right;\">Mais pourquoi ?\u00a0<\/h1>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2.jpg\" title=\"Saint-Brandan-2\" alt=\"Saint-Brandan-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Saint-Brandan-2-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<h3>Comment expliquer ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne ?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Pour comprendre, il faut replacer les relations entre les baleines et les peuples premiers dans un contexte mill\u00e9naire. Lorsque les Europ\u00e9ens ont explor\u00e9 le Nord au Xe si\u00e8cle, ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 fascin\u00e9s par les liens entre les autochtones et les baleines. La litt\u00e9rature m\u00e9di\u00e9vale d\u00e9crivait l'Arctique comme une terre peupl\u00e9e de \"poissons monstrueux\" et de gens capables de les invoquer par magie.<\/p> <p>M\u00eame les r\u00e9cits des explorateurs et missionnaires, d\u00e9crivant la chasse et le partage de la baleine, \u00e9taient teint\u00e9s de mysticisme. En 1938, l'anthropologue Margaret Lantis a parl\u00e9 d'un \"culte circumpolaire des baleines\" chez les I\u00f1upiat, les Inuits et d'autres peuples du Nord, prouvant ce lien \u00e0 travers tabous et rituels. Une baleine tu\u00e9e recevait souvent de l'eau douce, un repas, voire des sacs de voyage pour assurer son retour spirituel. Chaque baleinier avait des chants pour les attirer, et les chamans tenaient des c\u00e9r\u00e9monies religieuses dans des cercles d'os de baleine. Les amulettes, transmises de p\u00e8re en fils, renfor\u00e7aient cette relation myst\u00e9rieuse, incompr\u00e9hensible pour les observateurs non autochtones, en particulier pour les scientifiques, r\u00e9fractaires \u00e0 tout ce qui semblait anthropomorphique.<\/p>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1.jpg\" title=\"whale-petroglyph1\" alt=\"whale-petroglyph1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2.jpg\" title=\"whale-petroglyph2\" alt=\"whale-petroglyph2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/whale-petroglyph2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<h3>Le mysticisme des peuples du Nord et leur lien sacr\u00e9 avec les baleines<\/h3>\n<p>Le long de certaines c\u00f4tes de l\u2019Alaska, les roches sont recouvertes de p\u00e9troglyphes d\u2019hommes et de baleines.<br>Ils \u00e9taient sculpt\u00e9s par des chamans baleiniers dans le cadre de rituels qui leur permettaient d\u2019acqu\u00e9rir les secrets de la mer et d\u2019offrir des remerciements pour sa g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>En arch\u00e9ologie, de telles attitudes ont limit\u00e9 notre compr\u00e9hension de la pr\u00e9histoire arctique, explique Erica Hill, zooarch\u00e9ologue \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Alaska Southeast. Les amulettes de baleiniers et les cercles d\u2019os ont \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme rituels ou surnaturels, sans que l\u2019on sache vraiment ce qu\u2019ils signifiaient pour les gens qui les ont cr\u00e9\u00e9s. Au lieu de cela, les arch\u00e9ologues qui ont \u00e9tudi\u00e9 les artefacts animaux se sont souvent concentr\u00e9s sur les informations tangibles qu\u2019ils ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9es sur ce que mangeaient les peuples anciens, combien de calories ils consommaient et comment ils survivaient.<br>Hill fait partie d\u2019une branche en plein essor de l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie qui utilise des r\u00e9cits ethnographiques et des histoires orales pour r\u00e9examiner les artefacts animaux avec un regard neuf et interpr\u00e9ter le pass\u00e9 d\u2019une mani\u00e8re nouvelle et non occidentale. \u00ab Cela m\u2019int\u00e9resse en tant que partie de notre pr\u00e9histoire en tant qu\u2019humains, dit Hill, mais aussi dans ce qu\u2019il nous dit sur les autres fa\u00e7ons d\u2019\u00eatre.<\/p> <p>L\u2019id\u00e9e que les peuples autochtones ont des relations spirituelles avec les animaux est si bien \u00e9tablie dans la culture populaire que c\u2019est un clich\u00e9. Pourtant, limit\u00e9s par la science et la culture occidentales, peu d\u2019arch\u00e9ologues ont examin\u00e9 les archives de l\u2019histoire humaine dans la perspective que les animaux ressentent des \u00e9motions et peuvent exprimer ces \u00e9motions aux humains.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ainsi les Tinglits du Nord Ouest Am\u00e9ricain, les Aborig\u00e8nes du Sud Est Australien, les Maoris de Kaikoura, le peuple Mayumba en Afrique de l\u2019Ouest, les Hawaiiens, les Polyn\u00e9siens et tant d\u2019autres ont pu en plusieurs milliers d\u2019ann\u00e9es tisser des liens puissants, bas\u00e9s sur le respect et souvent l\u2019\u00e9change avec ces baleines.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">L'\u00e9change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Le chant des baleines se retrouve dans les chants chamaniques des peuples qui les \u00e9coutent depuis des milliers d\u2019ann\u00e9es, mais aussi, on peut retrouver des m\u00e9lodies humaines dans le chant des baleines\u2026<br><br>(voir La recherche de la musique disparue des Kalinagos )<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Le respect<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ces baleines sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9es par les peuples premiers, soit comme des membres de la famille, les Tinglits notamment les consid\u00e8rent ainsi et le fait chez eux de manger leur chair est assimil\u00e9 au cannibalisme, soit comme des divinit\u00e9s, les Hawaiiens les nomment \u00ab Koholas \u00bb les d\u00e9esses de la mer, qui sont entour\u00e9es d\u2019une immense sph\u00e8re de Mana, l\u2019\u00e9nergie pure, gardienne de la spiritualit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman.jpg\" title=\"1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman\" alt=\"1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200x680_carib-indian-family-by-john-gabriel-stedman-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Le lien perdu des Caraibes<\/h3> <p><br>Dans les Caraibes, les peuples pr\u00e9 colombiens ont certainement eu ces m\u00eames liens avec les baleines \u00e0 bosse, ces baleines consid\u00e9raient ces peuples comme leur famille, jusqu\u2019en 1492\u2026<\/p> <p>1492, l\u2019arriv\u00e9e des Europ\u00e9ens a sonn\u00e9 le glas de ces civilisations, Kalinagos, Caraibes, Ta\u00efnos, Arrawaks, ces peuples furent progressivement extermin\u00e9s ou assimil\u00e9s, leur culture et leur spiritualit\u00e9 an\u00e9anties. Les baleines ont alors subi ce g\u00e9nocide de leur \u00ab famille \u00bb comme un traumatisme. D\u00e9s lors s\u2019est install\u00e9 chez elle une d\u00e9fiance l\u00e9gitime vis \u00e0 vis des \u00ab nouveaux \u00bb humains qui peuplent d\u00e9sormais les Cara\u00efbes.<\/p> <p>Pierre Lavagne de Castellan<\/p>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568.jpg\" title=\"0129.DR-jlh-637.568\" alt=\"0129.DR-jlh-637.568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0129.DR-jlh-637.568-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Peinture rupestre Taino ( R\u00e9publique Dominicaine il y a 4000 ans ) repr\u00e9sentant une baleine \u00e0 bosse.<br><br><\/h3> <p style=\"text-align: left;\">La position de cette baleine ne peut \u00eatre observ\u00e9e de la surface, cette position, cambr\u00e9e, pectorales au repos, est caract\u00e9ristique d\u2019une baleine en socialisation, la personne qui a peint cette baleine il y a peut \u00eatre 4000 ans avait l\u2019habitude de la c\u00f4toyer, sous l\u2019eau\u2026<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Notre mission est de renouer ce lien<\/h3> <p style=\"text-align: center;\">L\u2019interaction musicale avec les baleines \u00e0 bosse des Cara\u00efbes, est la cl\u00e9 pour renouer le dialogue avec ces animaux\u2026 recr\u00e9er le lien.<\/p>\n<h5>Les trois axes de travail :<\/h5> <ul> <li>L'\u00e9quipe du Shelltone Whale Project communique quotidiennement avec les baleines \u00e0 bosse de Guadeloupe gr\u00e2ce au Shelltone, \u00e9tablissant peu \u00e0 peu un dialogue musical. Cette musique permet de cr\u00e9er une relation intime et de renouer des liens avec ces c\u00e9tac\u00e9s.<\/li> <li>Nous pr\u00e9parons la formation d\u2019un orchestre de jeunes musiciens qui apprendront la musique des baleines pour ensuite les emmener en mer jouer avec elles.<\/li> <li>Nous allons partir \u00e0 la rencontre des musiciens et scientifiques des autres \u00eeles des Caraibes o\u00f9 vivent les baleines \u00e0 bosse, afin d\u2019initier des \u00e9changes pluridisciplinaires.<\/li> <\/ul>\n<h5>L\u2019apprentissage de la musique des baleines \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole de musique et danse de Petit Bourg :\u00a0<\/h5> <ul> <li>L\u2019\u00e9cole de musique de Petit Bourg, propose cette ann\u00e9e \u00e0 ses \u00e9l\u00e8ves, de suivre en collaboration avec le Shelltone Whale Project des sessions de chant et musique des baleines.<\/li> <li>Chaque \u00e9l\u00e8ve de cette \u00ab formation \u00bb joue de l\u2019instrument qu\u2019il travaille habituellement, Pierre Lavagne de Castellan apprends aux \u00e9l\u00e8ves les m\u00e9lodies des baleines.<\/li> <li>Les \u00e9l\u00e8ves doivent composer leur propre morceau inspir\u00e9 du chant des baleines.<\/li> <\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">L\u2019id\u00e9e est qu\u2019\u00e0 terme, les jeunes musiciens pourront jouer avec les baleines \u00e0 bosse, sur un catamaran sp\u00e9cialement con\u00e7u pour la communication inter-esp\u00e8ce, en utilisant la musique comme vecteur de communication, nous avons l\u2019espoir de renouer le lien entre les hommes et les baleines en Guadeloupe puis dans l\u2019ensemble des Cara\u00efbes.<br><br>La Guadeloupe est ainsi en passe de devenir la premi\u00e8re \u00eele au monde o\u00f9 les enfants jouent de la musique avec les baleines qui peuplent ses eaux, la communication inter esp\u00e8ce \u00e9lev\u00e9e en art\u2026 Un partage et reconnaissance mutuelle qui a vocation \u00e0 se p\u00e9renniser de g\u00e9n\u00e9rations en g\u00e9n\u00e9rations\u2026<\/h5>\n<h3>La recherche de la musique disparue des Kalinagos\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>On sait que les baleines \u00e0 bosse s\u2019inspirent depuis des milliers d\u2019ann\u00e9es de la musique des hommes qui vivent sur les cotes des zones qu\u2019elles fr\u00e9quentent. Elles ont donc construit leur r\u00e9pertoire musical en collaboration avec ces hommes. Elles utilisent ensuite ce r\u00e9pertoire pour transmettre de g\u00e9n\u00e9ration en g\u00e9n\u00e9ration les chants prot\u00e9odiques, qu\u2019elles utilisent pour les fonctions que nous d\u00e9veloppons ici. Cependant, dans les Cara\u00efbes, les populations pr\u00e9 colombiennes, Ta\u00efnos, Arrawacs, Car\u00efbes, Kalinagos\u2026 ont pratiquement \u00e9t\u00e9 toutes d\u00e9cim\u00e9es. Seul en Dominique subsistent des descendants de cette population. Le traumatisme de l\u2019envahissement de leur territoire, le g\u00e9nocide qu\u2019ils ont subit et la colonisation qu\u2019ils ont v\u00e9cu par la suite, leur a fait perdre la majeure partie de leur culture, dont leur musique.<\/p> <p>Cependant, les baleines \u00e0 bosse, elles, ont conserv\u00e9 cette musique qu\u2019elles se transmettent, jouent et utilisent toujours pour v\u00e9hiculer les chants prot\u00e9odiques de g\u00e9n\u00e9rations en g\u00e9n\u00e9rations.<\/p> <p>Un des buts du Shelltone Whale Project est de retrouver dans le chant des baleine des cara\u00efbes, cette musique et la remettre au peuple Kalinago subsistant en Dominique.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pierre Lavagne de Castellan \u00e0 Maui Hawaii, avec David Rothenberg et Dan Sythe.<\/h3>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1-769x1024-375x500.jpg\" height=\"500\" title=\"musique-baleines-1\" alt=\"musique-baleines-1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1-769x1024-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-1.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-2-395x500.jpg\" height=\"500\" title=\"musique-baleines-2\" alt=\"musique-baleines-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-2-395x500.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-2-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/musique-baleines-2.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/>\n<h1>LE LIEN <br>RETROUV\u00c9...\u00a0<\/h1>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-grouoe-cachalots-050-1024x767-534x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" title=\"shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-grouoe-cachalots-050\" alt=\"shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-grouoe-cachalots-050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-grouoe-cachalots-050-1024x767-534x400.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-grouoe-cachalots-050-300x225.jpg 300w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051-1024x767-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shelltone-whale-project-guadeloupe-cachalots-proche-bateau-051.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-1024x768-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" title=\"P1840094\" alt=\"P1840094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-1024x768-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094-1024x768-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.shelltonewhaleproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1840094.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Moments hors du temps \u00e0 la rencontre des c\u00e9tac\u00e9s en 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