Emu In The Sky Analysis

Australian Aboriginals or the indigenous Australians are believed to have been one of the world’s first astronomers. Studying many astronomical objects such as the sun, moon, planets, stars, and even the Milky Way! Aboriginals also use the sky as a calendar. Northern Australian aborigines used a more complex calendar with six seasons and some mark the seasons by which stars are more visible during those months. Some stories say that the heliacal rising told the aboriginals when it is time to move on and look for food elsewhere. Many groups use Orion’s appearance in the night sky to predict when newly born dingo puppies will arrive. Different times of the year the Emu in the Sky is oriented so it appears to be either running or sitting down. Depending upon its position people in the

There are also rock engravings by the Nganguraku people at Ngaut Ngaut, which represent lunar cycles, sadly much of the Nganguraku culture has been lost for over a hundred years now. Many aboriginal traditions have a female sun and male moon figure. The Yolngu say that the sun-woman, Walu, creates dawn by lighting a small fire each morning. She paints herself with red ochre, an earth pigment, which spills onto the clouds creating sunshine. She then lights a torch and carries it across the sky from east to west creating daylight. She finally descends from the sky, leaving behind ochre painted clouds, the sunset, puts out her touch and travels underground back to her east starting camp. Now the Ngalindi, the Moon-man is a bit different. The moon man was young and slim, the waxing moon, but started to grow fat and lazy, the full moon, his wives chopped bits of him off with their axes, waning moon, to escape he climbed a tall tree towards the sun, but died from the wounds, new moon. After remaining dead for three days he rose again to repeat the