The Songlines
Author: thekingsfool // Category: Body, Heart, Soul and Mind, Esoteric, Music, Research Resources, Science
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The Aboriginal People of Australia

For the aboriginal people… of Australia, the earth… was not thought
of… as a body… so much as a melody… a song… representing a map
of directions. But as Bruce Chatwin, wrote in his book, “The
Songlines”, it is interesting… to remember… that the name for
our universe means, literally, “one-verse”, perhaps ours… is but
one section… of a larger song… spanning many “universes,”
which together… form a complete song.
Aboriginal creation myths… tell that the Ancestors… climbed up
out of the land… and began to walk around the country. Every
time… they spotted a rock, an animal, a stream or a plant, they
would call out its name… in the form of a song. In essence,
they were singing… these items… into existence… by naming them.

Whatever they saw… and did… was recorded in song, and these
songs… were ’stored’ in the countryside… over which… they traveled.
“Wherever their tracks led,” Chatwin writes, “they left a trail…
of music.”
The Ancestors’ songs… lay themselves down… into the ground.. in
couplets, with one half… on one side… of the track, and the other
half… on the other side. With these couplets… the Ancestor… stored
his “life-cells” or “spirit-children,” and it was said… that when a
pregnant woman… walked over… one of these couplets, it traveled…
up into her body… and impregnated… the fetus… with song.
Every aspect… of the Australian land… was charged… with these
ancient songs, and the paths… upon which… the Ancients trod…
were special track ways. The aborigines… referred to these
roads… as “Footprints of the Ancestors” or “Way of the law,”
but the Europeans… called them “Dreaming tracks” or “Song lines.”
The aboriginal conception… of land… is of a free and open place,
something which cannot be hemmed in… with fences and titles
of ownership. Rather, the country… is an interlocking network…
of “ways through.” All their words for “country” are the same…
as their words for “line.”

Traveling of the song lines… was called “Walkabout.” The
Walkabout… was a very spiritual experience, though the paths…
had both psychic and physical purposes… for the aborigines.
To them, settling in one place… meant death, and travel was
necessary… for survival. The song line was, in a sense, a
path… back to the Ancestors… themselves.
Chatwin argues that, since the aborigines… probably migrated…
to Australia… from other lands… back when all the continents…
were joined, that the idea… of the Song lines… probably extends,
into other countries. “I felt the Song lines… were not necessarily
an Australian phenomenon, but universal: that they were the
means… by which… man.. marked out his territory, and so
organized.. his social life.” Such tracks… must exist… the world
over, he thought… not just in the outback.
The aboriginal elders… of the North Coast Bundjalung tribe… give
us the history… of the coming seven tribes… in ancient days…
who came… from a destroyed homeland… in the heavens. These
people… built a system of pyramids, containing giant crystals…. That
encircled the world… to create a nourishing and protective energy
field. Bundjalung elders… even refer to a large pyramid… hidden
in the rainforest… of northern New South Wales.
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