The Australian aboriginal Dreamtime is a timeless mythic ‘world’ that exists for all eternity. In the Dreamtime, the Ancestors walked the earth, and created everything – plants, animals, geology and landscape. Many rituals in Australian aboriginal culture allow the tribe to contact the Dreamtime, to once again ‘live in it’ and be renewed, if only for a short time. Modern development that bulldozes and reforms a landscape destroys the ‘world’ of the Dreamtime, that is its most terrible result, according to the aboriginal people.
In recent years, scientists in Australia have found three new species of unusual extinct kangaroos. At least one of these species was a creature of the Dreamtime. Added to the list of ‘known’ kangaroos, are a long legged galloping ‘roo with long fangs that was an aggressive hunter, a horned ‘roo, and a giant, leaf-eating kangaroo. The giant short-faced kangaroo is the largest leaf-eating kangaroo species on record. Standing three meters tall and weighing 200kg, its blunt front teeth were well adapted to chewing leaves and resembled those of koalas. Living in forests, it went extinct about 45,000 years ago, a date coincident with the those for the earliest human evidence in Australia.
This giant ‘roo was certainly known to the first Australians and likely survived in legends and folk tales after it became extinct. Kangaroos are depicted in aboriginal rock art, they are ancestors and creatures of the Dreamtime
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Kangaroo Moon by Louise Macaulay
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In recent years, scientists in Australia have found three new species of unusual extinct kangaroos. At least one of these species was a creature of the Dreamtime. Added to the list of ‘known’ kangaroos, are a long legged galloping ‘roo with long fangs that was an aggressive hunter, a horned ‘roo, and a giant, leaf-eating kangaroo. The giant short-faced kangaroo is the largest leaf-eating kangaroo species on record. Standing three meters tall and weighing 200kg, its blunt front teeth were well adapted to chewing leaves and resembled those of koalas. Living in forests, it went extinct about 45,000 years ago, a date coincident with the those for the earliest human evidence in Australia.
This giant ‘roo was certainly known to the first Australians and likely survived in legends and folk tales after it became extinct. Kangaroos are depicted in aboriginal rock art, they are ancestors and creatures of the Dreamtime
http://amazingdata.com/captured-in-dreamtime/
Kangaroo Moon by Louise Macaulay
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