Carlo Tancredi
Kakadu National Park - Aboriginal art: Namondjok
Nourlangie, Northern Territory, Australia
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Aboriginal people from different clan groups have different stories associated with Namondjok (pronounced nar-mon-jock).
For some, he is a Creation Ancestor who now lives in the sky and can be seen only at night, when he appears as a dark spot in the Milky Way.
For others, he is a Creation Ancestor who broke the kinship laws. The story goes that Namondjok travelled through the Burrunggui (Nourlangie Rock) area and broke the kinship laws with his 'sister'. (Some Aboriginal people attribute this story to Nabilil rather than Namondjok.)
[Kinship laws dictate who Aboriginal people may and may not marry-Aboriginal people have a much broader and more complex kinship system than do people of European descent. An Aboriginal person's 'sister' also includes their mother's sisters' children and their father's brothers' children (cousins). Just as marriage between brother and sister is unacceptable in non-Aboriginal society, so it is in Aboriginal society].
A solitary boulder on Burrunggui is a feather taken from Namondjok's head-dress by his 'sister', after they had broken the kinship laws. The boulder is visible from Gun-warddehwardde lookout.
Kakadu National Park - Aboriginal art: Namondjok
Nourlangie, Northern Territory, Australia
look also:
www.flickr.com/photos/carlotancredi/1396651504/
www.flickr.com/photos/carlotancredi/1396439610/
www.flickr.com/photos/carlotancredi/1396950366/
www.environment.gov.au/parks/kakadu/artculture/art/nourla...
Aboriginal people from different clan groups have different stories associated with Namondjok (pronounced nar-mon-jock).
For some, he is a Creation Ancestor who now lives in the sky and can be seen only at night, when he appears as a dark spot in the Milky Way.
For others, he is a Creation Ancestor who broke the kinship laws. The story goes that Namondjok travelled through the Burrunggui (Nourlangie Rock) area and broke the kinship laws with his 'sister'. (Some Aboriginal people attribute this story to Nabilil rather than Namondjok.)
[Kinship laws dictate who Aboriginal people may and may not marry-Aboriginal people have a much broader and more complex kinship system than do people of European descent. An Aboriginal person's 'sister' also includes their mother's sisters' children and their father's brothers' children (cousins). Just as marriage between brother and sister is unacceptable in non-Aboriginal society, so it is in Aboriginal society].
A solitary boulder on Burrunggui is a feather taken from Namondjok's head-dress by his 'sister', after they had broken the kinship laws. The boulder is visible from Gun-warddehwardde lookout.