Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book by Bruce Chatwin, was mentioned in relation to the power of naming in aboriginal creation myths, where the act of naming brings things into existence.
there is a labyrinth of invisible pathways which mayander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as dreaming tracks or songlines to the aboriginals as the footprints of the ancestors or the way...
— Episode: James Prosek — Fishing with Mystery
Episode: James Prosek — Fishing with Mystery
This book by Bruce Chatwin, was mentioned in relation to the power of naming in aboriginal creation myths, where the act of naming brings things into existence.
there is a labyrinth of invisible pathways which mayander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as dreaming tracks or songlines to the aboriginals as the footprints of the ancestors or the way of the law. The aboriginal creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the dream time, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path, birds, animals, plants, rocks, water holes and so singing the world into existence. And, theory at least, the whole of Australia could be read as a musical score. One should perhaps visualize the songlines as a spaghetti of Iliads and Autoses, writing this way and that, in which every episode was readable in terms of geology.