All creation Bootheram is told in metaphor… Bootheram of the journeys and adventures of the Sky Ancestors describing significant geological events…
“I want to share with a Bootheram about the creation of the Gold Coast & Northern Rivers Headlands…..its a Bootheram about honey and the echidna”…
“In the ancestral Yoocum Yoocum moiety we call the Echidna, Booninj, the Porcupine….
“When Nguthungulli first sent his son Yar-Birrain to earth, the earth was very new….Yar-Birrain arrived into the paradise that Nguthungulli had created in the east ”..
“Yar Birrain is our name for Mount Warning. Once a huge shield volcano covering eruptions smothered the surrounding landscape with layers of basalt lava flows about 25million years ago……… By the time the eruptions had ceased, Yar-Birrain had risen from the seafloor to a height of 2km and a diameter of about 100km, forming a vast dome stretching south to Lismore, west to Mount Lindsay and north to Tamborine Mountain…. Tamborine is the closest the colonial settlers could get to saying Yar-Birrain”….
” Euston William’s was a Githabul man, and he married Charlotte Brown…..Charlotte is Ngarakbul from the Tweed Volcano where Yar Birrain is the centrepiece of the Ngarakbul ancestral estate…it is one of a chain of five eastern volcanoes that once formed a super volcano in the primordial past – known as Oobi Oobi – Nguthungulli’s sacred crystal mountain”…
“Euston William’s and Charlotte Brown had nineteen children …Their eldest Son was Stan Williams …… His tribal name was Duroom which means “Custodian of Knowledge and Lore…..they were all born post invasion in a war ravaged continent that afforded them no political, religious or humanitarian rights” ……
“Charlotte Brown inherited the custodianship of Yar Birrain Lore from her Grandfather King Brown of Wollumbin who was the keeper of the first Origine’ Lore of this continent – He had defied the occupying authorities and was banished to the labour camps of south east Queensland where he passed away – far from his native homelands”..
“King Brown had passed on the lore to his daughter at a desperate time in Origine’ history and she held nit safe and taught her people about the Rainbow Serpent and Nguthungulli, our Father – God, who made the ancient Origine’ Lore”…….. she knew her people didn’t come here , but were made here, by Nguthungulli – the creator and that all the Bootheram deities could be seen in the river of the Milkyway ” …..
“All creation Bootheram is told in metaphor… Bootheram of the journeys and adventures of the Sky Ancestors are describing significant geological events, often using native species as descriptive’s and as epoch markers” …..
“The portion of the Bootheram Lore telling of Yar-Birrain’s eruptions occur across the three volcanoes of Tweed Volcano, Focal Peak Volcano, and the Maleny Volcano– the Glasshouse Mountains, on the Sunshine Coast.. those three volcanoes began at the same time”……
“Main Range Volcano and the Bunya Volcano are older, from the time of Barambah, the Grandfathers….But the full creation lore of all five volcanoes Bootheram’s are sung together – All linked by the Rainbow Serpent and Seven Sisters Creation Lore’s”….
“The gazettal of the New South Wales and Queensland Border by the occupying British Commonwealth severed the ancestral lore most effectively…….. The Rainbow Serpent Traditions, Lore’s and Customs were forced underground to survive…… They are still being ignored by the authorities today…which is a great shame”……
“I’m just going to share with you the Bootheram which tells about the Gold Coast and Tweed Byron region of the Ngarakbul – where I was born and raised ” ….
“The old people say that when Yar-Birrain arrived in his Father’s paradise, he was drawn irresistibly to the sparkling surf…. He dropped his weapon’s on the beach and plunged into the primordial waters, swimming out to the horizon and back……that’s a metaphor explaining that the original Shield Volcano used to extend far out into the sea”…
“When Yar-Birrain arrived back on the beach he picked up his huge war club or Waddy….. the ground still clung to it…….suddenly the lava rose from the sea… rising up, following the waddy like iron follows a magnet”…..
“This is how the earliest rocky outcrops and islands of the Queensland Gold Coast and Northern Rivers Coast lines were created….the Waddy of Yar-Birrain”……
“After this period of creation work, Yar- Birrain became very hungry……So he rose up and began to journey west, travelling deep into the prehistoric forest to find food”…
“He came to a gigantic tree, Djalgumboonj – Mount Lindsay…that mountain was once a tree made by Nguthungulli way back in the Dreamtime”…..
“Yar-Birrain cut a vine to use as a rope to climb that tree…and as he climbed he cut footholds with his axe…up and up he climbed to cut a ‘sugar bag’ or bees nest from high in the trunk”….
“Sugar Bag Honey is made by the djagabar the little black native bee… In the dreamtime the Githabul Bird Tribes would make camp near the base of Mount Barney, which we call Budhurguhmu…………. Budhurguhmu is next to Djalgumboonj, on the Queensland side of the McPherson Range, The Githabul would go to collect that same honey at Budhurguhmu…and there is a djurebil [sacred site] for the increase of Booninj– echidna, there also” ….
“After descending the sacred tree, Yar-Birrain gorged himself with honey, gudhe, and then he turned back to the beach and sat at the water’s edge to wash off the sticky nectar”…
“As he washed his hands bits of honeycomb floated away, first creating the little headland of Burleigh, called Djellurgal (bee’s nest)….but some of that honeycomb floated out to sea and formed islands, which are now undersea mountains..But way back in the Dreamtime they were islands, like Cook Island off Booninjba, Fingal…others can still be seen allong the coast , like Boggangaree Headland at Cudgen, and Ballina and Lennox”….
“Yar-Birrain was still hungry, so he stood and stretched up to his full height…. pushing his arms toward the sky he sang a prayer of thanks and praise to Nguthungulli, his father, for creating such a land of paradise, and he asked him to make it even more abundant….. to send more good food to eat”….
“Such was Nguthungulli, God’s, power, that the level ground again rose up, stopping when it reached the height of Yar-Birrain’s fingertips…..the headlands had appeared and they were echidna Booninj..burrowing into the sand”…..
“All along the coastline the Booninj arose…. Booninjba [Fingal Headland], Cooloon Booninj– [Point Danger]…and Pooningba [Big Burleigh], Bogangaree, Byron, Lennox…from Honey Comb and Echidna, all came into creation”…..
That’s the Lore of the geological creation of sacred ancestral land which is now known as the Gold Coast, Tweed Valley and Focal peak Volcanos “……
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