
Mythology, Rewilding Forests and indigenous knowledge with Manchán Magan
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Story of the River
The lore of local place was encoded into these songs that were sung as the people moved across the land. The aboriginals have a different season, they break it up into six or eight seasons and then each season will have a different color connected to it. That's another way of encoding the song lines. They were also encoded in rock art - there was no such thing as art on canvas until we came along. It was always rock art to give the inspiration.
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