by Boost Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Stories
Towering into the sky and dominating the surrounding country, Nimbuwah is an outlier near the western Arnhem Land escarpment. Nimbuwah is a sacred site for the Kunwinjku people. In the time of nayubyungki, the First People, a tall young man named Nimbuwah came from...
by Boost Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Stories
It is only recently that details of the Tingari Ancestral Beings have been revealed to outsiders, and even then many secret and sacred song and dance cycles were forbidden to be disclosed. At one time it was thought that the ceremony was for men only, but women now...
by Boost Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Stories
In the Dreamtime an Ancestral Being called Yingana came from Macassar across the sea to the shores of Western Arnhem Land, bearing in her body many strange creatures, half human, half/animal, bird, fish or reptile, which she deposited at various places as she wandered...
by Boost Admin | Oct 24, 2019 | Stories
In the Dreamtime a man called Djanggawul, guided by the Morning Star, set out in a canoe with his two women (the trio is collectively called the Djan’kawu) and his pet goanna Djanda to cross the sea from Bralgu, the mystical Island of Spirits, to the shores of...
by Boost Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Stories
In the Dreamtime a group of Pintubi men went out hunting. They made camp near the secret cave site of Mitukatjirri, south-east of Kintore in the Western Desert. In the far distance they could see another camp fire and knew the people were not of their own skin group....
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