{"id":71,"date":"2023-05-05T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2023-10-14T01:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T01:24:01","slug":"biddy-ngandan-wal-mexican-hat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Biddy Ngandan Wal &#8211; Mexican Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The original name for this island is <em>Biddy Ngandan Wal<\/em>, which is a sacred Mirning place, which is also guarded by the <em>yaum walda mininya<\/em>, osprey sea eagles. They have their great stick nest home next to the island. This is the continuing <em>Jeedara<\/em> Whale Dreaming journey that makes up the songlines of <em>Jeedara<\/em> and <em>Yargaryilya<\/em>, the Seven Sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">This is where one of <em>Yargaryilya<\/em>, the Seven Sisters, hit <em>Jeedara<\/em> on the head with a rock, as he had not been listening to them. There are many meanings to the word <em>biddy<\/em>, though this one is for the point of the little island. <em>Ngandan<\/em> means hit on the head and this left a lump that is now a <em>wal<\/em>, scar mark from having been hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum-941x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum-1411x1536.jpg 1411w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yaum.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/figure>\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=96\">Take a Dive with Balgarda<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Biddy-1-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original name for this island is Biddy Ngandan Wal, which is a sacred Mirning place, which is also guarded by the yaum walda mininya, osprey sea eagles. They have their great stick nest home next to the island. This is the continuing Jeedara Whale Dreaming journey that makes up the songlines of Jeedara and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=71\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biddy Ngandan Wal &#8211; Mexican Hat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}