Aboriginal elders held a traditional cleansing smoking ceremony outside the Lindt Cafe today (19/12/14)
Cadigal elder Max Eulo, 72, known as Uncle Max, brought a piece of bark carrying smoking gum leaves to ward off the evil which found itself in Martin Place on Monday.
A man beating clapsticks followed Uncle Max as he made his way around the floral tribute and spread smoke over mourners and the cafe.
“We’re the Aboriginal elders of this area, the Cadigal people, and we don’t like the atrocity that happened to those wonderful people on our lands,” Uncle Max said.
“This is a traditional cleansing smoking ceremony to clean evil spirits away and to take everyone here that gets in the smoke on a safe journey home.”
Cultural healing. This warms my heart.
This is great and there needs to be more of it.