Trephina Sultan Thanguwa
Trephina Sultan ThanguwaTrephina Sultan Gallery Bush Food (2006) Bush Honey (Honey Grevillea) Bush Tobacco Country Desert Oak Bush Honey Dialysis Machine Art Symbolism Families Hunting and Gathering Bush Tucker Fire, Rain, Life Following the creeks and waterholes Goanna calling for rain Grandmothers Way Grass Seeds Healing Kamiku Ara Kapi (Rain) Kapi-Nguru Kulu Messy Art Minga Ntatha Flowers (My Desert Home in Spring) Rainbow Serpent Regeneration (Renewed Life) Seven Sisters Spiritual Journey Tjanpi Kampanyi Walpangku Wangka Katipai (Voices in the Wind) Water Symbol on Cave Wall Triptych: Fire, Rain, Life
Painting size: 120 cm x 70 cm
Long ago there was Seven Sisters who came down to earth to have a look around. They liked it here on earth and decided to stay. One day a man noticed the Sisters and he wanted them for his wives. He followed the Sisters everywhere trying hard to catch them, but the Sisters kept changing into animals and plants, for they did not want to be wives. The Sisters went back to the skies. You can see them at night all still together hiding from the man, who now became the Morning Star, still searching for them.
Trephina Sultan (Thanguwa), Tribe – Luritja
There are many variation of the ‘7 Sisters’ stories in Aboriginal Australia, with all relating to the Pleiades group of stars. Depending where the story is told, the man in the stories is usually Orion, Venus or the Moon.
Footnote & References
- Norris, Ray & Norris, Barnaby. (2020). Why are there Seven Sisters?. 10.48550/arXiv.2101.09170. There are two puzzles surrounding the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. First, why are the mythological stories surrounding them, typically involving seven young girls being chased by a man associated with the constellation Orion, so similar in vastly separated cultures, such as the Australian Aboriginal cultures and Greek mythology? Second, why do most cultures call them “Seven Sisters” even though most people with good eyesight see only six stars? Here we show that both these puzzles may be explained by a combination of the great antiquity of the stories combined with the proper motion of the stars, and that these stories may predate the departure of most modern humans out of Africa around 100,000 BC.
Trephina Sultan ThanguwaTrephina Sultan Gallery Bush Food (2006) Bush Honey (Honey Grevillea) Bush Tobacco Country Desert Oak Bush Honey Dialysis Machine Art Symbolism Families Hunting and Gathering Bush Tucker Fire, Rain, Life Following the creeks and waterholes Goanna calling for rain Grandmothers Way Grass Seeds Healing Kamiku Ara Kapi (Rain) Kapi-Nguru Kulu Messy Art Minga Ntatha Flowers (My Desert Home in Spring) Rainbow Serpent Regeneration (Renewed Life) Seven Sisters Spiritual Journey Tjanpi Kampanyi Walpangku Wangka Katipai (Voices in the Wind) Water Symbol on Cave Wall Triptych: Fire, Rain, Life
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