Kasu Moras Ledatame Ikun

Serimónia ida ne’e serimónia ikus kasu moras nian. Tuir uma lisan Ledatame Ikun, bainhira kura tiha sira nia-moras, sira fó agradese ba bei’ala sira iha bee-matan Wai Lia Bere no mós iha uma lisan Ledatame Ikun. Serimónia ida ne'e mós fó agradese ba sau hare.

Iha Timor-Leste bee-matan sira mak elementu xave ida ne’ebé liga ema ba ema seluk no mós ba reinu bei’ala sira. Bee ne’ebé suli iha rai okos lori klamar no fornese moris no bein-estár ba komunidade sira. Iha kazu ida kona-ba estudante universitáriu ida naran Simião ne’ebé moras todan no besik atu mate tanba hetan atake. Na’in ida na’ok nia klamar maibé ho bee nia tulun, nia família konsege halo nia rekupera. Serimónia ne’e selu tusan ba bei’ala no bee-matan nia na’in ba sira-nia kbiit atu kura moras no envolve fó liman-etun iha rai kuak no bosok ai-laran nian. Iha serimónia ne’e mós ema sira husu matak-malirin husi bei’ala sira no hahí sira-nia ligasaun ho bee ne’ebé suli ba bee-matan zona tasi ibun nian iha rejiaun Baucau. 

Aliansa antigu entre komunidade sira ne’ebé fahe bee liga aldeia no uma sira husi área rai-maran to’o rai-bokon tasi ibun nian. Nia abut mak akordu antigu ida ho bei’ala sira kona-ba ukun ne’ebé garante dame no promete fahe bee iha rejiaun tomak. Ledatame mak uma ida ne’ebé fó moris, rai, feen no la’en no asesu ba bee rai okos nian ba uma seluk ne’ebé partisipa iha serimónia ne’e. Karik uma sira seluk hetan moras ka problema ruma iha uma laran, sira bele hetan solusaun liuhosi kbiit bee nian husi uma Ledatame Ikun.
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Ledatame Ikun – Restoring the spirit

This is a final ceremony to restore the spirit of a recently ill person. In the customary practices of the people of the Ledatame Ikun ancestral house, thanks is given to the ancestors at the Wai Lia Bere spring and also at the Ledatame Ikun sacred house when a member of the community recovers from an illness. The ceremony also gives thanks for the rice harvest. 

In Timor-Leste spring water is central to people’s connections to each other and the ancestral spirit world. Underground flows are the carriers of spirits and the providers of life and well-being to the living. In this instance Simião, a university student, had been very ill and had almost died, something had attacked him and taken his spirit. But with the water’s help, the family had recovered it, and his spirit had been restored to his body. The ceremony repaid the debt to the ancestral spirits of these healing and life-giving waters. The ceremony involved offerings in the cave and at the forest altar. It also asked for continued blessings from the spirits and honoured their connection with the water flowing to more lush and distant coastal springs of the Baucau region.
This ancient alliance of water sharing communities brings together villages and houses from across the dryland and wetland coastal regions. It grounds an ancestral governance pact which is intended to ensure peace, harmony and water sharing across the region. Ledatame is the life-giving house who provides marriage partners, land and access to underground waters to the other houses represented at the ceremony. Whenever these other houses have a problem or a sickness in the family, the solution is always through recourse to the power of the healing waters of the life-giving house.