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Old 06-07-2018, 09:13 AM
weareunity weareunity is offline
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Hello Miss Hepburn.
I don't read much nowadays, but a few years back did read of the Australian indigenous peoples story/account of the role of the kookaburra bird in the process of the daily sunrise.
I find it beautiful. Beautifully constructed and a beautiful example of human creativity and imagination--creating an explanation for what is unknown using an intimate knowledge of what is known and so providing a framework within which daily life can be felt to be proceeding as it should.
Many beliefs stem from such constructs--and usually offer satisfactory framework to the society which believes in them. --Until they become frameworks of control for those who purport to be able to speak for the unknown.--Or when the unknown becomes known by means such as scientific enquiry, which then offers what is usually seen as a contradictory storyline.
Perhaps the original stories still have something to offer in that case--albeit an offering of a different nature to what was either presumed or intended. An offering perhaps of the great complexity and creativity of the mind.

All the best. petex
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