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A very long time ago, all the peoples and all the animals spoke
the same language. And whenever the three sisters in the
sky danced in a straight line, everyone would come together
to meet and have a great Bunya, a festival to celebrate their
friendship, and to lay down the laws for the next generation.
When a handsome guest betrays the laws, he creates
enormous disharmony between the peoples. Wiritjiribin the
lyrebird yearns for integrity, reconciliation, and salvation, and
in doing so, is gifted a great ability f rom the Creator Spirit.
Yandel’ora, translated as ‘‘The Land of Peace Between Peoples’’
is a D’harawal Dreaming story that illustrates why only the
lyrebird can speak all languages and how the lyrebird became
the interpreter and peacemaker.
The story features Wiritjiribin the Lyrebird, Bittoorong’burran
the Red Kangaroo, Duluma the Estuarine Crocodile, Gilinga
the Frog, Kookaburra the Laughing Kookaburra, Wangali
the Southern Brown Bandicoot, and many more. The story
contains several layers of knowledge, which are the secrets,
the law, or lore, to be obeyed, and the lessons.
These lessons introduced Peoples to the means to live in
harmony with each other, and the land and its resources. With
understanding and respect for each other we can learn to
more easily share this Land and live together in peace and
harmony.
The story is preceded with an introduction of the Yandel'ora and Aunty Fran (Frances Bodkin) a descendant of the Bidigal clan of the D’harawal Peoples (with ancestral and spiritual links to Wiritjiribin - the first lyrebird).
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