Attributions & Recognition

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Recognition & Attribution

Keeping the Embers

Some knowledge is not written on paper. It is carried, generation upon generation, in the keeping of those who refuse to let the fire go out.

We honour Aunty Stella Wheildon, keeper of the ancient Lore. She recorded and preserved the teachings of the Githabul Ngarakbul Elders, holding this knowledge safe through the years. In doing so, she has been keeping the embers — tending the living warmth of an ancient fire so that it may pass, undimmed, to those who come after.

We honour the Githabul Ngarakbul Elders Council, the strong culture holders, whose custodianship keeps this Lore rooted in Country and community. Their strength is the ground the embers rest upon.

A luminous meeting of fresh water and salt water under a vast starfield night sky - a dark sacred waterfall spilling into a moonlit bay, deep navy and indigo tones with reflected starlight on the water, faint antique-gold glimmer. Mystical, reverent, cinematic. No text, no people.

The marriage between the fresh water and sea water. Alcheringa Island, Moreton Bay

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In Service to the Lore

Bugal-Wena & Warrazum

Working on behalf of the Githabul Ngarakbul Elders Council — with unwavering dedication to maintaining the Lore as the First Lore Keepers on the Australian continent.

May the embers never go cold.

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Cooloon is a Ngarakbul word which refers to the Blue Fig or Quandong Tree Growth Cycle and is the Beginning of a multi-step initiation Song line that follows the annual star paths. First-time initiates learned the first rule of Creation Lore: Not To Be Greedy.

Aboriginal Creation Lore must take appropriate steps to ensure the current climate catastrophe accentuates the primary motivator: money and dishonour—the first rule in Creation Lore is not To Be Greedy.