![]() ![]() ![]() The Seven Sisters sacred songline, the depth of which is known only by the traditional land owners, is a mighty story, linked with the night sky, that has lived forever and can be read in its sacred places over thousands of kilometers. Their story was part of a songline, or “Dreaming track”-one of many pathways that lead across the continent connecting the people to the land and its traditional laws-and it would remain in my memories. He was a shapeshifter who showed up in different places, always in pursuit. I can remember my family members pointing out the Seven Sisters star cluster and telling me how the sisters had fled to the sky to escape a bad man who was endlessly chasing them. When I was a small child, my family would often come together and talk for hours under the brightly lit stars in the yard around my grandmother’s place on the edge of town in North West Queensland. Waanyi writer Alexis Wright draws out the enduring message of the Seven Sisters songline: a timeless and universal story of a flight from danger that runs across the Australian continent, connecting land to sky. ![]()
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