The Noongar People (also spelt Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah) live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. In the Noongar Dreaming or ‘Nyitting’, the sky was once so close to the ground that trees and other tall plants could not grow. Therefore, the Noongar People had to crawl when they moved around the country, and all the birds had to walk everywhere instead of being able to fly around. The birds were tired of having to walk everywhere, so they decided to work together and they started gathering lots of sticks and branches. These clever birds would use the sticks to hold up the sky so they could fly about; but the sticks looked like they would break under the heavy strain. Nevertheless, the magpies were wise, so they placed some long sticks in their beaks and pushed it up until the sky eventually sprang up far above their heads, revealing the sun and in turn creating the first sunrise. Each dawn the ‘Koorlbardi’, or magpie, sings its beautiful song to remind the descendants of this world of its importance in the creation of the first sunrise.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:15:00 +0000
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