For a long time there was no sun, only a moon and stars. That was before there were people on the earth, only birds and beasts. Seguir leyendo »

Early in the Dreamtime, before the sun had begun to shine, there was a young woman who decided to leave her people because the elders would not allow her to make her own choices. Seguir leyendo »

In the Dream-time, a terrible drought once swept across the land. The leaves of the trees turned brown and fell from the branches, the flowers drooped their heads and died, and the green grass withered as though the spirit from the barren mountain had breathed upon it with a breath of fire. Seguir leyendo »

Australian indigenous people are made up of many diverse communities and societies, with notably different cultural practices, languages and inhabited environments. As a non-indigenous Australian, I’m not privy to many aspects of the animistic and polytheistic religion, just the stories told to me as a child. This is one of them. Seguir leyendo »

In my Australian childhood, we celebrated Bonfire Night on November 5 with fireworks, bonfires, and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes. Seguir leyendo »

In popular legend Fawkes was an Englishman who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with barrels of gunpowder. He was caught, tortured, imprisoned, and finally, in a particularly grisly manner, publicly executed. Seguir leyendo »

In the Dreamtime, Brolga was the most wonderful dancer the people had ever seen. Her dancing sung the stories of the spirits and the totem, and when she danced the people rejoiced. Seguir leyendo »

Ancient dragons, diverse in form and behaviour, appear from Western Europe across China and over the opposite side of the globe to America. Perhaps dragons represented frightening forces of nature? They were usually found in deep wilderness or places where people could not, or dared not, venture. Seguir leyendo »