A spirit child enters the world directly. My mother was spiritually fertilised, being in contact with her tribe’s, Dhungutti, most potent site – Burrel Bullai. My mother, fertilised by this type of power, established my identity directly with that spiritual power. The Mountain can bring the people back to their homeland. The older men would take the young boys up the mountain for their initiations. It is taboo for women to be on ‘Burrel Bullai. The women had to walk around it.
One day when the older men take young boys up the mountain for their training, a young boy wants to go. But the old men say you are too young to be a ‘dilga. The little boy was naughty, followed, hiding behind the bushes. That night the little boy saw an older man kill a Goanna.
The older man shared the Goanna to eat. It was too late for the little boy to return to the woman. They fell asleep. The older man woke early, but the little boy was still asleep. He was so naughty the spirit of the Goanna entered his body and turned him into a Goanna. The Goanna spirit still lives on top of the Mountain today. You can see the Goanna form on top of the mountain.
Birth Of Consciousness
I also connect with the Goanna spirit in my father’s Dialect called ‘Dirrawong in my father’s ancestral lands—Goanna Headland at Evans Head NSW. The Dirrawong is alive in a cave. The Goanna Spirit is a vital creation in Origine’ Bootheram Dreamtime—an aerial view of the tip of the Headland. The way of the Goanna can be seen.
The Dirrawong (Goanna spirit) is an unseen spiritual creature that protects, guards, and help its people with values, wooden articles, wooden sacred objects and the beliefs, values, rule and practices concerning the people’s relationships with the land.
My blog graphic is the Sacred Mountain of my mother’s people and a meandering creek called Nulla Nulla Creek.
My birth water. The creek also has the power to draw people back to the area. My grandfather told me as a child that water is magic. The Creek was created in the Dreamtime by the porcupine being hunted by the ancestors. A large rock sits at the mouth of Nulla Nulla Creek, marking the spot the porcupine was captured and speared, creating the quills we see on the porcupine today. The name was given to me for Dunghutti’s most potent site ‘Burrel Bullai. – Watch Over You –
