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If you like, but it doesn't tell us anything about what was happening ten thousand years ago, just what has happened in the meantime.
by hugh4 10y ago
If you like, but it doesn't tell us anything about what was happening ten thousand years ago, just what has happened in the meantime.
- a_bonobo 10y agoThere are some cool overlaps between Australian aboriginal oral traditions and past events: https://theconversation.com/finding-meteorite-impacts-in-aboriginal-oral-tradition-38052 https://theconversation.com/finding-meteorite-impacts-in-abo...
- hugh4 10y agoMaybe, but I'm not convinced that they're anything other than some lucky coincidences. >He said his people were forbidden from going near the craters, as that was where the fire-devil ran down from the sun and set the land ablaze, killing people and forming the giant holes. Australian Aboriginal mythology attributes every geographical landmark to the action of some kind of spirit in the dreamtime. These rocks are three sisters who ran away from their family and were turned to stone. This river was formed by a giant snake. The vast majority of the stories are, of course, just made-up guesses, so there's a pretty uphill battle to make a convincing case that one isn't. A crater, well, it looks like what you get when you throw a rock into the sand, so that part of the myth is an obvious guess, that it was caused by some big force acting from above.