Makar Sankranti

[Vinayaka]

Happy Makar Sankranti everyone, for tomorrow. This auspicious festival is celebrated differently throughout India (and called by different names). Enjoy the day.

[ajay00]

Originally Posted by Vinayaka

Happy Makar Sankranti everyone, for tomorrow. This auspicious festival is celebrated differently throughout India (and called by different names). Enjoy the day.

Thank you, Vinayaka .

Wish you too, and everyone as well a happy Makar Sankranti.

[crocodile]

Here's a Makar in Australia.
Australian Kadimarkara is a crocodile-monster , tree-trunk and water-spring.

Indonesian makara is a crocodile-monster , pillar and water-spout.

"A German missionary Rev. Johann Reuther sold the fossil tree to South Australia museum in 1907. It now stands outside the east wing of the museum.. It was lying down in three pieces on a salt pan east of Lake Eyre. Aboriginal people in the area believed it was the body of a Dreaming Ancestor called Kadimarkara who died and turned into stone."_ S Australia Museum.

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" .Muramura and the marvellous reptile.

(1) A muramura (ancestral man) tracked a kadimarkara (giant mythical reptile with claws) ."

The native tribes of South-East Australia - Page 798

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Howitt Anna Mary -

"..be those of one of the fossil animals or reptiles which are found in the deltas of the rivers emptying themselves into Lake Eyre, and which the Dieri called Kadimarkara."
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(Non-marine sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin in the north of the state contain diverse vertebrate faunas of Tertiary age, including lungfish, crocodiles and strange marsupials.)

Kakakudana and the Origin of the Mound Springs: A Legend of the Urabunna Tribe

"This legend professes to account for the origin of the fossilised marsupials and other creatures which are found in several places in the Lake Eyre district, and also for that of the mound springs .. These fossils are called by the tribes-people Kadimarkara, creatures which in the Mura-mura times descended from the sky-country to the earth, by means of great trees which grew on the eastern shores of Lake Eyre, and supported the sky."

"Kakakudana lived to the west of Lake Eyre. . At Pitalina he dug after a Kadimarkara, which he killed underground,. The place where he killed the Kadimarkara is marked by springs. "

Sanskrit कधि माकर "ocean crocodile ": kadhi mAkara. "salt-water crocodile". Lake Eyre is a salt sea. Indonesian language is about 50% Sanskrit words.
Lake Eyre now has the ancient name Kuti Thanda "meeting place of bosses". In Java , Kuti is a hermitage, Buddhist temple. Tamil thandha is "given" , Deivam Thandha "God-given". Old Javanese tantu " world-order". Tanda means "head-man".
In Aboriginal astronomy to the east, the Crocodile in the Milky Way appears in October and is the sign to start moving over the summer to the ceremonial Bora dance-grounds .
So the Makara events were happening at about the same time.