The architecture of deep time
Songlines and the map of the stars
Fire, water, and ancient engineering
Art on the rocks and in the sand
matilda Songlines and Star Maps
We are driving down the highway that was written in the stars
matilda Yolngu Tidal Cosmology
He scoops the sea, he fills his cup, he pours it right back
matilda Trace star tracks to discover how Indigenous Australians read stories written in the land.
matilda Songs describing ancestral Dreaming journeys mapped waterholes and rock formations, enabling different language groups to trade and travel peacefully.
What cultural concept describes the era when ancestral spirits created the land and its songlines?
How do travelers traditionally use songlines to navigate across unfamiliar territories?
What seasonal activity is traditionally timed using the orientation of the Emu in the Sky?
Cosmic map: The Wardaman people of the Northern Territory use the night sky as a legal map, where stars represent specific territories and boundaries on Earth.
An ancestral path across the landscape believed to have been traveled by creator beings and recorded in traditional songs. Gamilaroi travelers follow these songlines over 700 kilometers to Queensland for seasonal Bunya nut gatherings.
Which celestial body did the Yolngu people correctly link to the rising and falling of ocean tides?