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ABORIGINES
EMU IN THE SKY
PLEIADES
MAGIC TIME JAR
ORION CONSTELLATION
LYRA CONSTELLATION
CIRCLING WORLDS
MAGIC DREAM CIRCLE
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UPW BUTTERBYE IN IN DISGUISE AS A STAR
BUTTERBYE ARE A CRAZY COLOURED PARROT
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We learned so much about the Aborigines
Did you know that Aboriginal Australians have not just one culture, but
about
400 different cultures across Australia,
each with its own language, laws, traditions,
and stories!
For many Aboriginal cultures, the night sky is
a central repository of stories and law. Songlines can be traced
through the sky as well as through the land, and the stories and songs
associated with the sky underpin many cultural tenets.
This cultural astronomy is said to predate the origins of European or
Asian astronomy, so that Indigenous Australians have been called the
world's first astronomers!
Most Aboriginal cultures are centred on the idea that the world was
created in the "Dreaming" by ancestral spirits who have left their
symbols all around us.
If one can understand these symbols, then one has a complete
understanding of the world, of the meaning of life, and of the
rules by which one must live - a sort of user manual for existence.
BUTTERBYE.....WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THESE SERVED
AS RULES BY WHICH TO LIVE?
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES FOR YOU....
Some Aboriginal Australians use the sky as a calendar to tell them
when it's time to move to a new place and a new food supply.
The Boorong people in Victoria knew that when the Mallee-fowl
constellation Lyra disappears in October, to "sit with the Sun",
it's time to start gathering her eggs on Earth.
Other groups knew that when Orion
first appears in the sky, the Dingo
puppies are about to be born.
Naturally, the night sky is an important chapter of this manual.
Specific examples of common threads across Aboriginal cultures
include:
The "Emu in the Sky"
which consists of dark clouds in the Milky Way, stretching from
Scorpius to the Southern Cross, and which features in many
Aboriginal cultures right across Australia.
There are also said to be "Song-Lines"
SONG LINES
They consist of one song, telling one story, that stretchs across
Australia, following the sacred paths of Dreaming-spirits, and
encompassing many different Aboriginal language groups and
cultures.
Each language group tells its own part of the story in its own
way, and yet collectively they assemble to make a coherent
whole, which could only be understood in its entirety by an
individual who spoke all the languages along its length.
The Pleiades
also figures in the Dreamings of several language groups.
For example, in the central desert region, they are said to be
seven sisters fleeing from the unwelcome attentions of a man
represented by some of the stars in Orion.
The close resemblance of this to Greek mythology is
believed to be coincidental, and there is no evidence of any
cultural connection.
An interesting question to ponder is to what extent Aboriginal
people were interested in the precise motion of the Sun,
Moon, planets or stars.
No one has an answer yet, but it has been suggested that some
of the stone arrangements in Victoria may have been used to
track the equinoxes and/or solstices.
Indigenous Australia's oral tradition and religious values are based
upon reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime.
We have much to learn from the Aborigines
REMEMBER:
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to look beyond into the impossible!"
THE NEXT TIME YOU LOOK AT THE STARS,....
TAKE A GOOD LOOK.....
ARE THEY TELLING YOU SOMETHING?
AS MUCH AS I WANT TO CONTINUE...
BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH MORE!
I'VE GOT TO COLLECT THE CREW!
BUTTERBYE
GEM
ZYTON
BUTTERBYE
AND
ZYTON
SIGNING OFF FOR NOW !
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