This map of Songlines is from the book ‘First Footprints’, by Scott Cane:

"The enormity and complexity of the religious geography across arid Australia is indicated by the representation of desert dreaming, or Tjukurrpa, tracks. There are many hundreds more tracks and stories than are represented here and each provided a pathway across the desert, between countries, linking waterholes with reliable living areas and places of religious importance. These highways of subsistence, ceremony and society conditioned life in one of the hardest landscapes on Earth. Armed with this oral tradition, a desert nomad could survive anywhere, at almost any time over the last 45,000 years of settlement in the desert."

 

The Dreaming stories for the tracks are:  Sand Goanna, Water Snake, Thorny Devil, Fire/Bustard, Two Men, Two (other) Men, Eagle, Moon. Native Cat, Man and Kangaroo, Scrubby Kangaroo and Magpie, Red Kangaroo, Echidna, Sand Goanna, Emu, Women (Fire), Many Women, Sweet Potato, Kingfisher, Water, Desert Finch

When you consider that these are just the ‘freeways’ and that there are hundreds, thousands more shorter connecting stretches, the map of the overlay of Songlines and trade routes starts to look like fine lace!  When the First Nations sign their treaties, I hope they will be calling to have their Songlines registered free access, like the stock routes.

 

[Maureen Brannan 905 Wilsons Road CLOYNA via MURGON Q 4605 ph: 0427710523]

(Some further related emails and info below)

 

I’ve acquired a bit more evidence to back the theory that homo erectus evolved into homo sapiens on this continent first, not Africa – homo erectus spread over the whole globe, being very intelligent hominids who had tools and sea-going craft – my own theory is that it could also be a case of co-evolution, that it is the inevitable predictive unfolding of the human DNA potential that was facilitated by the psychotropic plants of the region - the hominids evolved into homo sapiens on the different continents at more or less the same time. Terence McKenna was adamant that humans evolved from apes when we came out of the forest and started ranging upright over grasslands and began eating the ‘magic mushrooms’ that the herbivores’ dung produced, the psychotropic qualities of which caused organelles in the brain to activate, causing “utterances” and eventually language – the Ayahuasca vine in the Amazon, mescaline of Mexico, the amanita mushrooms and mistletoe of the Celts, etc etc, all helped to evolve the human brain. Could that psychotropic ‘evolver’ on this continent be pituri?* (more on DMT and wattles below) 

 

Anyway, I came across the word ‘piggiebillah’ first in the book ‘Aranda Boy’ where it means echidna, and then noticed it in the Euahlayi people’s language. It is identical, you could say, to the Old English word ‘piggie’ meaning little pig. Now, as these Aboriginal languages are a minimum of 80,000 years old, and English is just a few thousand years, and as the word is so specific to a small pig-like animal, it MUST have come from Australia. The sound ‘Ng’ is another example of human languages coming ‘Out of Australia’, being found in Aboriginal languages tens of thousands of years before it travelled to Indonesia and beyond. 

 

I’ve also recently read Worimi Dates confidential statement about the sacredness of Boolah Dillah (The Alum Mountain, Bulahdelah - lots more news coming up soon about getting the unholy Bulahdelah Bypass moved) He called Mother Earth ‘Puri’ - the core of ‘pure’ in Latin is  ‘purus’, and originally Greek ‘pur’ purify with fire, but maybe the true original word was Aboriginal – Puri – Mother Earth, the great cleanser and transmuter of all decay through her terrestrial and water channels into healthy ecosystems; Puri - One of six Holiest Hindu cities;  Puri - Royal Temple compound in Bali; Ceremonially making pure;  Purim, festival that celebrates good overcoming evil, just as the Earth always overcomes ‘evil’ and death by purifying within her body and then resurrecting – which according to Worimi is the specific Dreaming of the holy mountain Boolah Dillah!

 

I’m after a scholarship for regional correspondence study for an eventual thesis linking all the world’s ancient trade routes – got the Aboriginal Songlines mostly mapped – as a means of bringing about intimate, physical and spiritual planetary connectivity again – of achieving union with almighty Nature. I want to set up a website with it for the Meridian Wave, that’s a self-embedding roll of energy outlined in the piece below. The website would follow the wave in real time and co-ordinate the midday observance with each participating town and city. The thesis will result in an exhibition of a papier-mâché landscape of the Aboriginal Songlines into Asia – (recently heard of a similar school project mapping landscape by laying down the topography with layers of cardboard according to elevation)

 

An old email also refers:

 

From: mbrannan4@bigpond.com

Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:03 AM

To: Catholic-Cardinal George Pell ; Catholic-media & general enquiries

Cc: Koori Mail ; National Indigenous Times ; Alanna Moore ; ATE - Claire Reid ; ATE Buddhist Council ; ATE- Robin Chapple WA Govt ; ATE-Ausanthrop Resources ; Aurukun Council ; Cape York Institute ; Bob Irwin ; Black/Green Solidarity List ; Father Bob Foundation ; Frances Bodkin D’harawal elder ; Frances Bodkin 2 ; Greens Bob Brown ; Greens Sen Christine Milne ; Jens Korff - Creative Spirits Australia ; Larissa Behrendt ; Marcia Langton ; Malcolm Carrall ; Michael Anderson ; Robert Corowa ; Roma - Professor Ian F. Hancock ; Tracker - Chris Graham ; WGAR ; Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council ; Cherbourg Cultural Precinct

Subject: Latin 'crude' compared to Aboriginal languages

 

Extract from NIT Big Read 16.11.11

www.forgottenorigin.com

“The Australian Aborigines have no trace of a written language , yet their spoken language is very complex.”  Klaatsch [That’s because the written word is ‘dead’ – it carries no authority, you need vibrations to affect the brain and in any case any written language is far too ‘crude’ to express 100,000 years of cultural evolution – they use holistic Iconography, infinitely richer and more complex as it expresses the understanding of entire concepts...m] 

 

‘Complex’ is an understatement. I have had the honour and pleasure of listening to Ramindjeri Elders when speaking in their traditional tongue, and in particular witnessed the discussion that took place when determining the correct pronunciation of one word. Close to twenty minutes passed before a consensus was reached. The rules of grammar, context association and sundry considerations were so detailed and ‘complex’ it made Latin seem like a cruder form of Pidgin English.   [Many more incredible facts and figures – eg a hand-held pebble chopper found by Angel John Gallard in the Snowy Mountains was dated as being possible over 100,000 years old. In ‘Bonyi Bonyi’ there is an account of a human skeleton that was discovered in a well being dug by pioneers in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains in the 1880’s - they said the human body was so fragile it turned to dust not long after it was exposed – the well diggers however recorded the exact depth where it was found so any archaeologist worth their salt should be able to work out just when that person was alive – Burnum Burnum says the Bunya Lands were the first meeting place of mankind, so maybe up to 80,000.]

 

Word comparisons include manda for hand and Latin manus; German wasser is repeated in ‘arra’ warra’ and ‘larra’;  strinking resemblance in Latin ‘pina’ and ‘bina’ for a leaf and feather. Central Australian ‘kaputa’ for head is very similar to the Latin ‘caput’   The Greeks  and the Aborigines have the same word for 'liver’: ‘hepar’ in Greek and ‘jepar’ in a Queensland tribe. The Latin ‘una’ and ‘duo’ similar to “unnar” and “djakala”.    [I found another cross-cultural similarity in my own name, Maureen - it is derived from the Biblical name Miriam which means 'drop in the ocean' - I noticed the name of one of the Torres Strait islands is Meriam Mir, which is, literally, a drop in the ocean.  Variation on the word 'milk' is also universal across languages. NEXT:  Pattern Thinking and more examples of the mind-boggling subtlety, nuance and sophistication of Aboriginal languages and cultures.]

 

 

The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

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Langloh Parker

It might be the track of a piggiebillah porcupine. This track was followed to a hollow log; then came the difficulty, how to get it out, for porcupines cling tightly with ...

 

Pituri, intoxicant

Until Europeans arrived, the Aborigines used few drugs. The main one was pituri from the shrub Duboisia hopwoodii (7,19,37). The active ingredient is nicotine, the same alkaloid as in tobacco. "Pituri" is also used more broadly to include wild tobacco weed. The chemistry of pituri differs widely (19,37). In the Northern Territory, the drug is actually non-nicotine, four times more toxic than nicotine. Aborigines there prefer tobacco weed.

Aborigines used pituri to inspire mirth, to increase stamina and courage before warfare or firewalks. Pituri can induce trances, thus accessing the Dreamtime, that is psychic and mystical experiences. Nicotine is also commonly used in American shamanism (38).

Pituri also refers to the dried leaves and stems of the shrub. Aborigines smoke "quid", a mixture of leaves with ash from the acacia bush, thus increasing drug potency (19). Leaves are placed behind the ear, or on other body parts. Nicotine is absorbed through the skin (37). Nicotine in quid -three times more concentrated than in cigarettes - produces stupor and catalepsy, a trancelike pain-free state (19,37).

Pituri is hoarded and the shrub localities kept secret. It grows over much of Western Queensland, Eastern Northern Territory and Northwestern NSW, where it was widely traded (1,37).

Pituri can induce trances, thus accessing the Dreamtime, that is, psychic and mystical experiences.

Reading List:

1) Aiston, G. (1937). The Aboriginal narcotic plant pitcheri [pituri]. Oceania, 7,372-377.

Acacia spp. - Acacia Tree | Entheology.com

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Many species of acacia, particularly Australian ones, contain DMT and other ... TRADITIONAL USES: Numerous acacia species have been used for medicine ... In Australia, aboriginal tribes use various species of native Acacia to create a fine ...

DMT Traditional Use - Welcome to Tryptamine Palace

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Traditionally these snuffs are administered by forcefully blowing a mixture of powdered ... Archeological evidence of the use of the 5-MeO-DMT snuffs reach back ... the snuff as Acacia niopo (later called Mimosa acaciaoides by R. Schomburgk), .... stealth, they have assumed a place of primacy in aboriginal religious beliefs.

Psychic and Mystical Experiences of the Aborigines - Australian ... ‎

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Only recently have Aborigines written or recommended books that accurately portray ... This is the medicine man, man of high degree, clever man or shaman (11,13). .... The precious foliage: A study of the Aboriginal psychoactive drug pituri.

Narcotics

The ash of several Acacia species was used to mix with the leaves of Duboisia hopwoodii to

produce pituri. This was a highly valued trade item and the ash of A. igulata and A. hakeoides

were amongst the plants utilised.

Man has a poor understanding of life. He mistakes knowledge for wisdom. He tries to unveil the holy secrets of our Father, the Great Spirit. He attempts to impose his laws and ways on Mother Earth. Even though he, himself, is a part of nature, he chooses to disregard, and ignore it, for the sake of his own immediate gain. But the laws of nature are far stronger than those of mankind…

Chief White Cloud. The Circle of life.