Travelling at night, ancestral and totemic spirit constellations would pass overhead

Carrington level event reaching the Earth today, for which we are overdue, would fry the nerve system of the entire planet

progress and civilisation are not the same thing

evening of August 28th, 1859

What we have with the Boorong is a proof of concept that star lore can be used to guide disparate populations to a specific site for a multitude of spiritual and practical reasons.

Myths can be examined through a metaphoric microscope, which reveal the thousands of glittering, unique manifestations of a particular story in a particular culture, or they can be examined through a telescope, where the personalities, codes of dress and foodstuffs fade from view, to be replaced by a wider vision of unifying themes across humanity.

I suspect these may have been filled with a liquid that could reflect and catch the starlight as in a mirror

the mind moves inevitably to an amphitheatrical effect of chanting, drumming and dancing, both people and ‘heavenly beings’ vibrating together with the sacred sound. Throw in the night sky, firelight casting dancing shadows of animal totems, the smell of roasted game and the suggestion of ritual intoxication and the whole place starts to sound …

Stories, then, can move in a way pottery or malarial adaptations cannot. All archaeological evidence of contact is accompanied by cultural evidence, but not all cultural evidence of contact is accompanied by archaeological evidence. Stories can echo and refract through and beside the scientific story of mankind. They are special artefacts that cry