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How the World Began: Creation Stories From Central Australia |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: Peter Holden |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,461 Words, 14,803 Characters |
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Uluru is the repository of aboriginal myth. It is a metaphor through which the Aborigines interpret the universe, and the location is imbued with spiritual significance. Through the rock, the local people--who call themselves Anangu--are connected.
I visited the site, known to most Australians as Ayers Rock, in the early 1980s and had my own spiritual experience, of sorts. I traveled up from South Australia in the sweltering summer heat along a route that was no more than a sandy trail. The sense of expectation of seeing Uluru was overpowering.
Immediately on arrival, I jumped at the chance to climb the rock. I stumbled up the 1,143 feet to the summit and gazed out over the plain of red-ocher sand and small shrubs. But, silly me, I had forgotten to bring along any water. Consequently...
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...s the Blue-Tongued Lizard men's shelter, here is the emu meat. These stories of the mythical past are expressed in all forms of aboriginal culture. They are the core of ceremonial life, the theme of ritualistic songs, the subject of their art. In these ways, the Aborigines of Uluru keep alive the ties that bind them so closely to the rock, the great monolith under whose shadow they were born.
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