Activity

With the group of Solari members, I went to Australia in 2018 (with other Giza members, as well) and, as part of the schedule, met with an elder indigenous (Original) who allowed us to see one of these cave sites. What we learned was that these cave sites were inhabited by migrating tribes and that most cave paintings were to teach stories to their children, carry on tradition. In NT, with a guide, we hiked in to see some of these shelters and learned that since (think Tower of Babel) these tribes did not have a common language, some of the paintings explained how to catch and then cut up the various edible animals. We learned about the distinctly different types based on age of the paintings, the oldest we saw were indeed 45-46,000 years old. This area was particularly interesting since, unlike the desert south of Uluru, this tropical area floods as much as 60′ during the rainy season requiring the people to escape to rocky ledges and shelters, and then come down into the marshes (crocodile filled, btw) and savannah during the dry season. With the Solari group, we learned that only the elders were allowed to paint over the older stories to explain new ones and, since non-natives were now penetrating further into sacred locations, many of the caves were being repainted to cover the stories entirely. What we saw in the cave south of Uluru was a myriad of star figures (think asterisk) that completely encompassed the ceiling and walls where other stories had recently been seen.