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The 11 Most Indigenous Sacred Sites in Australian Folklore
Australia already had a long cultural history when it was settled by Westerners in the late 1700s. This was thanks to the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, who had lived there for a long time. People who were very religious gave many local landmarks spiritual meaning, and people still admire them for that reason. These are the most spiritually important places in Australia, from shiny rocks to wide dunes.
Uluru
Uluru, which is also called Ayers Rock, is without a doubt the most holy place in Aboriginal culture. It is so holy that the government has made it illegal for people to climb it. Indigenous ceremonies have been held at the huge sandstone monolith for more than 10,000 years, and the local Anangu people believe that ancestral beings still live there.
Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta is another rock formation in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. It is made up of 36 boulders scattered across the ochre-colored Central Australian landscape. Like Uluru, Indigenous people believe that Kata Tjuta has spiritual meaning. Aboriginal stories about the domes are mysterious. One Dreaming story tells of a snake king named Wanambi who lived on the top of Mount Olga.
Birrarung Marr
Wilpena Pound
Lake Mungo
The Mungo Lady and the Mungo Man are the names of two people whose bodies were found here by archaeologists 50 years ago. Indigenous people have lived on the Australian continent for more than 40,000 years, as shown by the important discovery. So, this Unesco Heritage Site is the oldest place on Earth where people were buried in a special way.
Devil’s Pool
The name of this swimming hole near Cairns comes from an Aboriginal story. The story goes that Oolana, a young bride who ran away because she couldn’t marry her one true love, jumped to her death at this holy place. Since then, it seems like she’s been luring men into watery graves. Since 1959, 17 people have died in the pool. A plaque near the pool says, “He came for a visit and stayed for good.”
Arnhem Land
Grampians National Park
Ninety percent of the Aboriginal rock art in the state of Victoria is in the Grampians, a national park three hours west of Melbourne that is full of trees. At the Brambuk Cultural Centre in Halls Gap, you can learn about Indigenous stories before going on a bushwalk to see the colorful rock art sites.
South Australian Museum
Even though a lot of Indigenous artifacts can be found in the Australian bush, the South Australian Museum in the middle of Adelaide keeps a lot of them safe. The museum has the largest collection of Aboriginal cultural items in the country. It has paintings, boomerangs, shields, weapons, and the only bark canoe that is still in one piece. The collection is spread out over five floors.
Black Mountain/Kalkajaka
Even the name “Black Mountain” sounds scary. “Place of spear” is what the Aboriginal name Kalkajaka means. This strange pile of black granite boulders in tropical North Queensland has four religious sites that are important to the Kuku Nyungkal people: Kambi, a cave where flying foxes live, Julbanu, a rock that looks like a kangaroo, Birmba, a stone where cockatoos live, and Yirrmbal, a place that the Indigenous people don’t want people to go.
Worimi Conservation Lands
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