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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Star Stories of the Dreaming
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'Euahlayi Lawman and Knowledge Holder, Ghillar Michael Anderson, shares some of the ancient wisdoms of his Peoples' connection to the universe. He also speaks with a leading astrophysicist, Professor Ray Norris, as they compare the similarities between cutting-edge astrophysics and Stories older than time itself ...' (Source: Vimeo website)

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  • Star Stories of The Dreaming includes the Euahlayi Stories for:

    ▪ Wurrum-boorrool - Big river in the sky (Milky Way)

    ▪ Mil-Mulliyan - Eye of the Creator – Venus – Evening star

    ▪ Mulliyan-gar - Eye of the Creator - Morning Star - Mars

    ▪ Goolee-bhar - Coolabah tree hollow, way to Bullima, the Sky Camp – Coalsack Dark nebula

    ▪ Moo-dthe-gar - White cockatoos – 5 Stars of Southern Cross

    ▪ Goomar-why - Sacred Fire near coolibah tree– Alpha Centauri Pointer of Southern Cross

    ▪ Wunnargudjilwon - 3rd wife of Bhiaime - Large Magellanic Cloud

    ▪ Wullar-gooran-bhoon - Younger brother to Wunnargudjilwon - Small Magellanic Cloud

    ▪ Birringooloo - Mother Nature – Uluru her resting place

    ▪ Gunumbielie - 2nd wife of Bhiaime, Caterer who now lives at Goomar-why, Sacred Fire

    ▪ Gwaimudthun & Gweeghular – Night & Day– Dark & Light - moieties – 19 mile plain, Brewarrina

    ▪ Garwaar-ghoo - Featherless Emu - Dark nebulae in Milky Way, Dust lanes and Galactic bulge

    ▪ Bahloo - Moon, Waan – crow; Oolah – wood geckco

    ▪ Yhi – sun

    ▪ Mei Mei – Seven Sisters – Pleiades – Narran Lake and surrounding lakes; Bigoon – water rat; Gayadharri – platypus, Ghay-gharn - wood duck

    ▪ Birray Birray – Brothers – Orion's Belt

    ▪ Womba Womba yiraay - Crazy Old Man at his camp - Aldebran

    ▪ Wirrawilbaarru – Whirly wind – Bad spirit travels inside whirlywind – lives behind Scorpio and entry in and out is through black holes in Scorpio;

    ▪ Buuliis – baldy mounds

    ▪ Star maps/astral navigational waypoints – two chains of waterholes – Beta Sagittarii to Gamma Arae; Beta Sagittarii to Zeta Scorpii

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