I'm thinking about my vibration almost continually these days. It's 3am and I woke up to let out our cat, Sylvester.
When I here the word "vibration" it takes me back to an old Beach Boys song, Good Vibrations. What does that mean and is it the same thing they were singing about? I believe the answer is yes. I've been concerned, that is my vibration has been a little out of sync, with how our Tiki art sales will go during the annual event in San Diego called Tiki Oasis. My friend and I will be attending the 9th celebration of the tiki this year, September 13-16, along with a few thousand others. We will be among several other artists who make a special emphasis on these updated ancient deity carvings. We also create paintings, mugs, t-shirts, decorative art, etc. The tiki originates back to approx. 200CE.
Oddly enough, the Polynesians who had carved their God in the forms of various wooden statues were nearly completely wiped out by Christian missionaries, who took it upon themselves to obliterate these images because some of them had phallus's and we all know God does not have a penis, right? Or does he?
Yet many years after these villages were destroyed, some of the carvings still survived. In the mid-20th Century, the folklore returned in the form of a kind of mystical Shangri-La and the carvings began to return as pop culture, without all the original context. The carvings original meanings are thought to be, Creator, man, first man, protector, warrior, wealth giver and so on.
Today, we have no idea what the original people actually intended by making these sometimes large figures to watch over their villages. But chances are they didn't have the same baggage we've got including stuff about nudity and sex. The point being their God survived yet in a very different form today. Pretty interesting in itself. But as God has been described as light coming into the world, their ancient light comes to us today, somewhat diluted from it's origin; far from it's original context, we can be fairly certain.
What does this have to do with vibration? In coming in tune with what lies ahead at Tiki Oasis, I can only think that the God of many forms is present and that we're still sharing this ancient light in an unusual form. Perhaps the traditional church of today doesn't seem appropriate for this graven image, and yet something about Tikis creates a feeling of being in tune with a very basic worship of the One who survives today, even in a strange grimacing carving.
Come to think of it, my vibration is just now back in sync.
I'm glad the light of their village is still being shared with us today.
Tiki Image © 2009 Peeler-Rose Productions LLC; Dan Peeler, Charlie Rose.
