Chapter 1 In The Dreaming Time

Seven Sisters indigenous hand woven basket installation. National Museum Australia

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In the beginning there was the Great Nothingness. No universe, no light, no dark, no stars, no planets, no Earth, Nothing. The Great Nothingness waited and waited and waited. For many eons of eons, a very long time, the Great Nothingness waited for something to happen. Then there was a vibration, which after a long time became a hum. A very soft hum at first. Then the hum grew louder and louder and louder until it became a song. A very beautiful song.

So beautiful that the universe started singing itself into existence. The universe became the dark of the night sky and the light of the stars. A group of seven stars were traveling across our galaxy. Seven beautiful young women today called the Pleiades. The Hunter we today call Orion and three young men, the three stars of Orion’s belt. They chased after the seven beautiful sisters, wanting them for their wives.

​One of the sisters got very frightened and hid herself away and so we can’t see her anymore. When the Pleiades first rise at dawn we know it is the start of winter. Sacred women’s ceremonies sing about the Seven Sisters to remind us.

After the stars were sung into existence the song continued. The planets, including our Earth, were singing as they came into existence. For a long time the Earth slept like a baby growing in the Sun Mother’s womb. Down under all is still and dark, the spirits of the Earth were sleeping. It’s the Dreamtime. Everything is still. All the spirits of the Earth are asleep. Almost all. The Father of All Spirits was the only one awake. The Great Father sings softly to the Sun Mother in our galaxy to wake her from her sleep. As she opened her eyes her light and warmth spread out towards our sleeping Earth.

The Father of All Spirits sang to the Sun Mother, "Mother, I have work for you. Go down to the Earth and awaken the sleeping spirits. Give them forms." The Sun Mother went down to Earth and sang a song to wake up the Earth and spirits in caves deep underground.

The Great Serpent poked her head out of her cave into the bright sunlight. Her huge fork tongue sniffed the air first. The Great Serpent had never seen light before and flashed rainbows in fright. The Sun Mother sang songs to make the Rainbow Serpent know she is safe and not to be frightened. The Sun Mother asked the Rainbow Serpent to help her recreate the Earth with life. The land still slept in the Dreamtime. Nothing moved. The Rainbow Serpent came out of her cave, pushing away through the crust of the earth. Creating hills and mountains and canyons as her great body moves through the rocks and dirt. Leaving big round stones in their path. Mother Sun shone to help the Earth turn and create life, animals, plants and people.

The Rainbow Serpent traveled over the Earth. Going in all directions, creating more hills and mountains and canyons. Mother Sun shone through the day bringing plants and animals and people into the light of life. When she finished traveling through the Earth, the Rainbow Serpent returned to her cave and called up the frogs. “Come out! Come out!“ The frogs were very slow and still below the Earth’s crust. Their bellies were heavy with water that had stored in their long sleep. The Rainbow Serpent tickled their bellies and the frogs burped and laughed. The water began to flow from their big fat bellies and vomit out of their mouths. Filling the whole Earth, filling footprint rings Rainbow Serpent had created in her path. This is how the lakes and rivers got created.

The grass began to grow and the trees and that’s how life began on Earth. All animals, birds and reptiles awoke and followed the Rainbow Serpent out of the Earth. She traveled so far and from one place to another and another and became tired. So she curled up and fell asleep. We can see her many children in the mountain ranges, big sleeping serpents. One of the frogs had slept in. Missing his duty of helping create life on Earth. He was a greedy frog who only wanted stuff for himself. He didn’t share with others, not even his own tribe. The greedy frog woke up one morning with a great big thirst. He started to drink all the fresh water from the lakes, swamps, rivers and creeks. The frog drank and drank. Until he’d drank all the fresh water that the other animals and the plants needed to drink to live. But the greedy frog had drunk it all up without thinking about everybody else.

With no water to drink the animals and plants began to wither and die. The frog just sat around with his big fat belly of water. The other surviving animals and plants had to do something to save the Earth and their families. So they created a plan to make the frog spit out the water he’d drunk all up. A wise old Owl coordinated all the animals into position to tickle the frog’s big fat belly. They tickled and tickled and tickled the frog and he laughed, but only burped. Only air came out. Then the eel from the salt water jumped out of the big sea to help. The eel tickled the greedy frog’s belly button. The frog laughed so much his belly wobbled and he croaked and vomited up all of the water. The water rushed out of his big fat mouth into a big rain that refilled the lakes and swamps and rivers and creeks. When we're in the bush and hear frogs croaking we know they are laughing at rain coming.

These creation stories are more than 60,000 to 80,000 years old. From the native peoples of Australia, the oldest continuous culture in the world. Their stories are the oldest creation myths. Each tribe has their own versions of the stories. But the meanings are the same. Including allegories of sciences not known to our modern civilization until Albert Einstein.

The universe humming and singing itself into creation is an allegory of quantum physics. Sound makes things vibrate at levels a microscope can’t see. Different tones can cause the particles to group into forms and shapes. Like putting a handful of sand on a big bass drum. When you gently tap the drum it hums and vibrates and the sand moves into different shapes. The shapes grow to create their own magnetic fields and attract more particles. Until they become three dimensional. Which eventually become stars. Which attract more particles that become swirling rocks and ice that clump together to become planets. The planets build in layers of rocks and ice. Layer upon layer upon layer. Eventually the final layer is loose rock layered over aquifers of water.

Terraforming the land by the Great Rainbow Serpent is where tectonic plates meet and volcanoes form mountain ranges. The sleeping frogs are tickled by the Earth moving and vomit up the water from the aquifers. The Mother Sun’s light and warmth heats the Earth and melts the ice in aquifers. The warmth and light activates ancient microbes in the water. Millions of years later they evolve into animal and plant species. Greedy frog is the cycle of drought and flooding rain. Serpent creation stories are found all over the world. Also the story of Orion the Hunter and his sons chasing the Seven Sisters. A classic in Greek and many other cultures’ mythologies. Shouldn’t different cultures developing on different continents have different creation myths?

Surviving through several ice ages without ancient aliens. Using the stars to navigate and track the seasons tens of thousands of years before history as we know it. A hunter gatherer people who live naked and totally at one with nature. With a knowledge of Earth sciences, agriculture, astronomy and quantum physics equal to university PHDs or better.

Researchers look for buildings and writings as evidence of advanced civilizations. But as we’re finding out now, the people with the most advanced knowledge don’t live in buildings nor write books. Their knowledge is recorded and transmitted in song and spoken word. They leave no trace for archaeologists to find. “Dust to dust ashes to ashes.” Aboriginal Australians observe properties and positions of stars, since the Dreamtime. Overt and subtle changes in their brightness. They've done so for 80,000 years and counting. Their story of Orion is outstandingly like other cultures around the world. The story we know from the Greek classics is the constellation Orion. A male hunter chases after the Pleiades star cluster, imaged as a group of seven women.

Wirangu tribes of the west coast of South Australia have the same Orion and Pleiades creation story. It's embodied in an important songline. The Orion constellation, the Hunter, they call Tgilby. Tgilby the hunter fell in love with the Seven Sisters, the Yugarilya, but they didn’t want his love. Tgilby then chases the Ygariy out of the sky, onto and across the earth. Australia was the original “Garden of Eden" mentioned in many ancient accounts. Where modern humans first evolved and ennobling civilized traits elevated them into existence. When ancient Egyptians came to Australia to mine gold, they knew they were standing on hallowed ground. They were in the presence of the world’s greatest mystics. "Kaidaitcha Men," "Wee-uns" and "Clever Fellas."

This is why there is no record of conflict. Ancient peoples never invaded Australia. With reverence they asked Australian tribes permission to stay under supervision. So they can mine gold and other minerals.

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