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Does “Wetu Telu” mean three prayer times?
On record Sasak · 2025-02-26 · Redaksi wilayah Nusa Tenggara
Contested claim · CLM-0008
Some adherents at Bayan
Community position
Telu refers to a three-part framework — bearing live, laying eggs, seeding — not to a count of prayers. The prayer-count explanation comes from outside and is used to disparage.
T3 SRC-0302
Commonly circulated explanation
Circulating usage — tertiary source
Many writings explain that adherents observe three of the five prayer times, and some local observers describe it in the same way.
T6 SRC-0601
The entry states both explanations and marks the second as resting on a tertiary source.
Every position carries its own source, and the tier of that source is visible. A position resting only on a tertiary source is still recorded — as circulating usage, not as an equivalent account.