I wonder if the whales that voted you up so generously are rooting for your boat (could be a whaling ship!) or your white bones to wash up as a carcass? No sooner did I put up the eerie Marilyn Manson and I find you speaking of Balinese masks.
We fight like with like as sensible doctors, to prevent the spread of poison by fortifying our defences.

canang sari

Offerings to make the canary sing?

The description is disturbing: singing his heart out --- because he can't fly out of the cage?!? Teaching your canary to parrot off the TV/tube? It lends the bird song an eeriness. Let's call our yellow friend Marilyn.
Then adding all this up: hell, yes we are in need of protection! Fold the palm leaves and put on the rice cooker! Pick a flower and bake a cookie. Rapido, rapido!

Or shall we just stay in our apple orchards playing at Adam and Eve? Or if Adam doesn't get with the programme, at Eve and Lucifer, lighting up the candles for the God to whom we kneel in devotion, separated from our purpose and sanctuary state by too much of everything, especially spilled blood, punctured blood, corrupted blood, and not enough love?