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SUBJECT: ABORIGINIES AND ALIENS FILE: UFO2867
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Date: 12-21-93 (11:52) Number: 1393 of 1395 (Refer# NONE)
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To: ALL
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From: SCOTT HALL
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Subj: Aboriginies and Aliens
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Read: (N/A) Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE (Echo)
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Conf: SpaceLink (30) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
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Hi All,
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UFO Research Australia
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PO Box 229
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Prospect
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South Australia 5082
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Compiled by ~UFO Research Australia (UFORA)~
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(C) COPYRIGHT 1989 - Copyright in this book, as a whole,
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is UFO Research Australia's (UFORA):
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Copyright in individual texts remains with the authors,
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who should be approached directly
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on all matters relating to their contributions.
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Aboriginal myths incorporate the idea of "sky-beings," with the
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~Wandjina~ being perhaps the most interesting from our point of
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view. While the Wandjina paintings of the Kimberleys have
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received all manner of interpretations, it is fascinating to see
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that the indigenous tribes viewed the Wadjina as "the spirit in
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the cloud." Indeed, the unique painting style shows a logical
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sequence from human figures to stylised representations of
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clouds. This duality of anthropomorphic form and "clouds" is
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widespread in primitive cultures and finds an arresting parallel
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in the biblical accounts, particularly in "Exodus." Therein the
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"pillar of fire by night" and "the cloud by day" was given to
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alighting on the ground, and, according to the St James
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rendering of "exodus," 33, 9-11, we find: "...as Moses entered
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into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at
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the door of the tabernacle...And the Lord spoke unto Moses face
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to face, as a man speak unto his friends." While this line of
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thought is suggestive of superior "sky-beings" acting as
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cultural catalysts for primitive societies, I should point out
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that making mythological component comparisons, can make for
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interesting exercises, full of emotive similarities, but are
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purely speculative, and should not be regarded as anything more
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(1).
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The aboriginal shamanistic ~"experience of death and rising
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again"~ in the initiation of tribal "men of high degree" finds
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some fascinating parallels with modern-day "UFO contactee" lore.
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In these situations, a tribesman is set upon by "spirits" and is
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"killed" - ritualistically disembowelled. He is then "restored
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to life" and informed of his new standing as a tribal "medicine-
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man." He is schooled in skills befitting a shaman. While such
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accounts are widespread and show wide variety, the following
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recorded by Spencer and Gillen is germane to our area of
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enquiry: "Then (Munkaninji - a "spirit") took (Kurkutji) away
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up into the sky (after the experience of "death and rising
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again") and brought him down to Earth, close to his own camp,
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where he heard the natives mourning for him, thinking he was
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dead. For a long time he remained in a more or less dazed
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condition, but gradually he recovered and the natives knew that
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he had been made into a medicine-man (2)."
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The Bad aboriginal tribe of the West Kimberleys have a
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fascinating "sky being" lore. They revere a supreme being called
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~Djmar~. In aboriginal lore the sound of a "bullroarer" - a
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roaring wind noise - symbolises the approach of the god. The
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original accounts indicate that Djamar's bullroar or "galuguru"
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are representations of the "being" itself. Thus, when the
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tribal elders led the young initiates to a stony bed of a creek
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and showed the holes where Djamar had implanted his "galuguru,"
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we have the suggestion that, whatever appearance or
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manifestation the sky-being took, it left behind a physical
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trace of its presence. Eliade quotes E.A. Worms when he
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indicates: "Earnestly the old men impress on the youths the
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terrible force of the original `tjurunga' (the original
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manifestation of Djamar), by pointing out the baldness of the
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surrounding hills and the damaged bark of the trees struck by
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Djamar when he whirled the bullroar. It smashed the rocks of
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the foreshore." After the manifestation of Djamar which left
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behind all this damage, the supreme being, Djamar ascended once
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again into the sky with his "tjurunga" (3).
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[End Quote]
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Merry Christmas,
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Scott.
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...I used to say, I'll believe it when _I_ see it. (Ed Walters)
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