Songlines

Congratulations! This is the Image of the Week selection for the Photo and Digital Art Gallery, week ending 13th July, 2012!Hi to all,

Hope you are all well. It has been sometime since I've posted.
Here is one image i haven't shared with you all. In camera effect with some colour enhancing in PS.

All little explanation on where the title came about.

So, Songlines also called Dreaming tracks by Indigenous Australians within the animist indigenous belief system, are paths across the land (or, sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised ‘creator-beings’ during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
A knowledgeable person is able to navigate across the land by repeating the words of the song, which describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, and other natural phenomena. In some cases, the paths of the creator-beings are said to be evident from their marks, or petrosomatoglyphs, on the land, such as large depressions in the land which are said to be their footprints.
By singing the songs in the appropriate sequence, Indigenous people could navigate vast distances, often travelling through the deserts of Australia’s interior. The continent of Australia contains an extensive system of songlines, some of which are of a few kilometres, whilst others traverse hundreds of kilometres through lands of many different Indigenous peoples — peoples who may speak markedly different languages and have different cultural traditions.
Since a songline can span the lands of several different language groups, different parts of the song are said to be in those different languages. Languages are not a barrier because the melodic contour of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes. The rhythm is what is crucial to understanding the song. Listening to the song of the land is the same as walking on this songline and observing the land.
In some cases, a songline has a particular direction, and walking the wrong way along a songline may be a sacrilegious act (e.g. climbing up Uluru where the correct direction is down). Traditional Aboriginal people regard all land as sacred, and the songs must be continually sung to keep the land “alive”.
Sourced from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines

The songlines were changed when Westerners colonized the land now we call Australia. There is belief that the westerners made the aboriginal people sing christian law along the songlines that start from Uluru (Ayres Rock) to Byron Bay. There might have been more.
Uluru is said to be the heart chakra of Australia or possibly the earth.

"Love and peace”

Ari

So great to hear from you again, and what a wonderful return. Thank you for the beautiful (stunning!) image and equally interesting explanation. I saw an incredible exhibit of Aboriginal art based on these lines- everything was made of dots, as I recall.

Sing on, and may we "hear" more from you. Thanks for the inspiration.

Beautiful picture and story.

One of your finest Ari -- great title and story too! Superb image -- welcome home!!!

Great title, made more understandable by your explanation. I love the curves and repetition.

Beautiful image. The curves are spectacular.

jn

Hi to all,

Thank you for the warm welcome and do appreciate your kind words. I did forgot to mention that most of the explanation was sourced from wikipedia.

All the best

Such a well deserved win, I was hoping this would win! Love it!

Thank you Jackie!