{"id":830,"date":"2023-05-24T22:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2023-10-14T01:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T01:23:48","slug":"australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=830","title":{"rendered":"Australia Whale Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are Whale Peoples around Australia, often where the whales gather to give birth, to rest on their migration or to pass on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEA LAW Custodian Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Elders Alliance of the Lineages of Ancestral Whales<\/strong> is a Custodian alliance spanning Point Culver in Western Australia to Nelson in Victoria; recognising the ancient connection of deep-sea whale peoples of the whale songlines of the Great Australian Bight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Custodians are led by Bunna Lawrie, Senior Elder and Whale Songman of the Yerkala Mirning, and Irene Watson, Senior Elder of the Meintangk, Bunganditj and Tanganekald. Both have been nationally and internationally acknowledged for their tireless work over many decades protecting culture and Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SEA LAW Custodians continue the work of their ancestors, carrying the cultural authority for respective land-sea-sky Countries and will work collaboratively to protect this globally significant legacy for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is currently a project supporting the recording of stories off Whale Peoples off Southern Australia. Please visit the Southern Stories pages to read and hear stories of Jeedara<\/em>, Kondoli<\/em>, Kanterbul<\/em> and Guramul<\/em> and to journey along pathways that carry the songs of our ancestors, all the way back to our Creator whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australia Whale Peoples<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the Western Migration path, Jeedara<\/em>, the great Creation whale of the Yerkala Mirning<\/a>, continues creating the cliffs along the Great Australian Bight. At Point Culver he turned and then returning he blew a rainbow to protect the Country and beings he had created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

West, along the South Coast of Western Australia, there is the great whale Mammung<\/em>. To hear more, please visit their site Wirlomin Noongar sharing their story of Mammung<\/a>. For children, you can also listen to Whale in Noongar on Little Yarns<\/a> and their “Mammung Dreaming, Whale Dreaming” as family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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