Olsechall ra Ruchel Brochure

From the brochure: "The Olsechall ra Ruchel is a stone platform on a rocky ridge in Ngebeanged region. The site is listed in the Palau Register of Historic Places (1998). The site is also known as Olsechall ra Rubak. The site has two intact stone platforms. According to an informant, there were several monoliths standing on the corners of the stone platform. According to oral tradition, the site was where the traditional council (klobak) of Palau began. This site is significant in that this was the place where the Uchel came to and organized the traditional government of Belau and gave out the basic principles of the whispered policies. The site is significant to the cultural history of Angaur as well as the whole of Palau because it is where the gods descended and from there, all the titles and the whispered policies were distributed. Kelelau (whispered policies) and the titles, kebekuul of the first four and the teleuchel a diu, the fifth to the tenth are the basic on which each of the traditional communities of Palau is governed or operates. The gods sanctified all the titles and the keleau and gave them to all the entities of Palau as guidelines in the governance of each community." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Arts and Culture, Ministry of Community & Cultural Affairs, administered by the Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number 70-12-41964).

Olsechall ra Ruchel Brochure

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