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
This work by Trephina Sultan is titled Kulu…
All the animal’s had a big meeting.
Who was going to carry the egg of life up to the universe. The Kulu was chosen.
When you see where the egg of life was carried
Meteorite has landed and dropped, split three ways.
This is our memory of the Kulu
And life began…


Footnote & References
- Meteoritics and cosmology among the Aboriginal cultures of Central Australia, Duane hamacher, University of Melbourne 2011, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-painting-describing-the-story-of-Kulu-the-meteorite-that-brought-life-to-earth-in_fig3_50251830
- Meteors, Meteorites, and Cosmology in Aboriginal Cultures of Central Australia, by Duane Hamacher, 4 April 2011, Australian Indigenous Astronomy, http://aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.com/2011/04/meteors-meteorites-and-cosmology-in.html
- On the Astronomical Knowledge and Traditions of Aboriginal Australians, by Duane Willis Hamacher II, http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Hamacher-Thesis.pdf
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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