Within Aboriginal belief systems, a formative epoch known as '
THE DREAMTIME' stretches back into the distant past when the creator ancestors known as the First Peoples traveled across the land, creating and naming as they went. The Dreaming is at once both the ancient time of creation and the present-day reality of Dreaming.
Over time the Ancestors grew tired - their bodies died but their spiritual essence remained in the landscape, the heavens and the waters. It is said that the Ancestors life giving powers still exist to this day at important sites around Australia. - Wiki
The Aboriginal Dreaming continued under the shadow of the Nov 14th TSE whose shadow first touched down on Aboriginal lands in Australia. The Sun and Moon danced new wisdom to humanity through the Aboriginal power of earth:
"More than 200 people gathered on an escarpment overlooking the Gurruwilny Swamp in Aboriginal Arnhem Land to view the November 14, 2012 Total Solar Eclipse. Some wept as an Indigenous ceremony took place in view of the eclipse, celebrating the dreaming of the sun and the moon in Yolngu culture.
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This is the first time in Yolngu for an eclipse festival," traditional owner from Ramingining, Peter Gambung, said. "It's really, really spiritual - they feel it, they see it."
"In this area it is very spiritual and you can feel it in the earth." said Ramingining actress Francis Djubiling
<In 1944 The Warlpiri Aborigine people explained to western anthropologists that a solar eclipse is the Sun-woman being hidden by the Moon-man
as he makes love to her. ... During a solar eclipse in 1922, the Wirangu Aborigine people told an anthropologist that the eclipse was caused by the Sun and Moon "becoming husband and wife together" (Source for this paragraph
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But this eclipse festival was the first time the Yolngu Aborigine people shared the dreaming story behind the sun and the moon, with visitors. "
It's secret business but it's time for us to show the non-Indigenous people our culture and to share our culture." said Djubiling.
Indigenous health worker Debbie Jagoe said "The symbolism they've shared with us, the moon and the sun meeting, black and white same blood, it's just such an amazing feeling to be here,"
It is "an extraordinary thing - I mean this is first people first land, sun and moon reconciliation coming together," JohnAlexis Viereck, from California, said.
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This is a profound REVELATION for us at this time and it asks for much contemplation. The ancestors speak to us of the mystery of the Sacred Marriage,the ecstatic Union of the Opposites, the Reconciliation of Duality. East and West, Masculine and Feminine, White and Black, Sun and Moon. Same Blood. Dissolved in Love. We are living in very tense times which call for great courage and creativity to meet the chaotic challenges swirling around us like a hurricane. We can tap into the energy gifted to us by the November 13/14 eclipse. We can breathe in the wisdom gifted to us by our ancestors as the Moon extinguished the Sun. We can Dream a new more balanced world into Being.
