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Billy Carson hosts Trudy with Evan Strong and Steven Strong for Dreamtime lore, not a racial ranking. Trudy sets the Seven Sisters on the east coast at a water rite, carrying yam sticks tipped with crystals a hunter would not approach. A man of her family line, Guriel in the telling, waits until the sticks are down, takes the two younger sisters, and is said to have brought a cold that nearly froze the world. A western song path has one sister lag, which is why she looks faint. The guests say every Aboriginal group knows this narrative, laid over every local estate story. Elders, Trudy reports, call waking life unreal and Dreaming the true place. Initiates can take an animal form, a kangaroo among them. Steven recalls an elder who already knew a skipped smoke rite because an owl had told a kangaroo. They also place their bird clan in a star system, and they say outsiders misname three brothers in a canoe.
Key points
- Trudy recounts the Seven Sisters at a water ceremony, with crystal tipped digging sticks the hunter feared.
- Guriel takes two younger sisters once the sticks are down, and the tale links him to a near freezing of the world.
- A western song path explains a sister who lags, and the guests say every Aboriginal group knows this one story.
- Elders are quoted as calling ordinary life unreal and the Dreaming the real world, a teaching tied to love.
- Initiates are said to change into a totem animal, including a kangaroo, when they must travel quickly.
- An elder is said to have learned of a broken smoke rite through an owl and a kangaroo, and to have named it a breach of law.
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Guriel took two of the younger sisters and he even caused the first I guess close to ice age cuz the earth nearly froze over.
Trudy, Seven Sisters in the Dreaming
She tells a hunter taking the two youngest once their sticks were down, and a cold that followed. Watch at 12:18
It's the beginning of everything and that's why every tribe must know that story.
Steven Strong, Seven Sisters in the Dreaming
He says this single narrative overlies every local tradition in the country. Watch at 16:06
Ancestors, those initiates are able to go from man to kangaroo change just like that.
Trudy, Seven Sisters in the Dreaming
High initiates are described as stepping into an animal body, a kangaroo among them. Watch at 27:04
The dreaming is real and in the real world and that's what we started asking.
Trudy, Seven Sisters in the Dreaming
She passes on the elders’ teaching that Dreaming, not ordinary waking, is the true place. Watch at 38:06
He said, "Evan, you both broke law." Because we didn't do a smoking ceremony.
Steven Strong, Seven Sisters in the Dreaming
He recalls an elder who knew a missed smoke rite because animals had carried the news. Watch at 1:02:36
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