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RE: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Finding
Songline
Within the animist belief system of Indigenous Australians, a songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
A knowledgeable person is able to navigate across the land by repeating the words of the song, which describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, and other natural phenomena. In some cases, the paths of the creator-beings are said to be evident from their marks, or petrosomatoglyphs, on the land, such as large depressions in the land which are said to be their footprints.
Thank you for posting a note to self: the singer follows the song. Well known by the Ancient Egyptians. (Seems we are all meant to take our holidays there all of a sudden. My parents are going in November. Wherever they have been they leave a trail of upheaval behind, it's becoming a running joke. I suppose world travellers have the odds in their favour to make a graph of all the places they visited barely shy of the time a war broke out, or a calamity occurred no sooner had they left. My parents the Great Farewell Couple, bringing tidings of distress you didn't even know you had in you.)
Interesting! Will they visit Jerusalem?
As a child, I remember an old couple, returned from a mission in Iran, they brought back such lovely souvenirs and stories and I was completely enchanted, but soon after the country was essentially closed off due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
The borders seem to be getting tighter, the plane play a problem, but still I'd like to see/experience some of these places.
My parents will visit Egypt, not Israel. Either trip might might have the same outcome, though!