{"id":52,"date":"2023-05-05T05:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2023-10-14T01:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T01:31:38","slug":"yirrerie-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"Yirrerie &#8211; The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The <em>Yirrerie<\/em>, Milky Way is known to us Mirning Elders and was also known to our Ancestors, who we learned from. The stories were passed down from them; from generation to generation, through thousands of generations. They told of the <em>Koorawarrie<\/em>, the dance of Creation and life in what us Mirning know as <em>Dhoogoorna<\/em>, Creation times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">In Creation times, beings and Dreamtime travellers came to our <em>Yoola<\/em>, Earth to give life. They came to give to those living now and our totems. They came to care and protect our place here on <em>Yoola<\/em>, Mother Earth and <em>Billia<\/em>, Father Sea. This was all created and shaped in form by the great white whale, <em>Jeedara<\/em>, with all his companions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">As our story goes and our history, our Dreamtime characters held our law against the ones who have broken it and those who disobeyed were cast back into the Milky Way. The Creation beings who came, created and have also left their mark on <em>Yoola<\/em>, Earth and are now all great stars today, which we have knowledge of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Sky - Uncle Bunna\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQ4W4u5wNEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The story of <em>Jeedara <\/em>and the Creation of Mirning Country told by Marbanu Bunna Lawrie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast open skies of the Nullarbor and Great Australian Bight are our &#8220;Gateway to the Galaxy&#8221; and are full of our ancestral stories. This is our Sky Country from where our Creation characters came and still have their <em>galaga womwoum<\/em>, star homes in the different constellations of our Mirning Astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=31\">Back to Map<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=57\">Journey into the Sea<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-1024x930.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-1024x930.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-1536x1395.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-2048x1860.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirning-Astonomy-1-2000x1816.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yirrerie, Milky Way is known to us Mirning Elders and was also known to our Ancestors, who we learned from. The stories were passed down from them; from generation to generation, through thousands of generations. They told of the Koorawarrie, the dance of Creation and life in what us Mirning know as Dhoogoorna, Creation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=52\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yirrerie &#8211; The Milky Way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}