Friday, January 31, 2014

Pilliga Forest Under Attack from Santos.

I have taken today off,  we have packed the car and we have road tripped out west of NSW first to Narabri and then onto Pilliga.

First stop was definitely to see for ourselves the Santos Office in Narabri where the heads of this company dictate the death of the last remaining un-fragmented temperate woodland, the Pilliga Forest.  A rare and endangered forest.

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It was hot compared to home but the heat was expected, but the heat we felt from this office was certainly hotter.   It is evident this company works with a corrupt government and a corrupt NSW Aboriginal Lands Council who sign off on cultural areas of NSW to make the way forward for mining.

I cannot see why people think this is  a normal process and I will never understand the government that aids this sort of thing.

The people of this country are desperate for justice and the people they elected to stand up for the rights of aboriginal people have sold out to the government and they are no longer representatives of what they want upheld to the various governments and their agencies.  They have simply lost confidence and have given them the thumbs down.  

To the government the Gomeroi people have said No Deal to Santos and we need to support them in this decision to save what culture there is left in this desolate part of the country that htey see as their home and the home of their ancestors.

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I think the government thinks no one cares about it.  They are sadly mistaken because this government is walking a very fine line at the moment with all of this.

We are going to a Corroboree at Pilliga and there will be a ceremonial fire and this fire is the fire of change and will effect things in another dimension to cause Santos to flee from the North West.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Alexander the Great

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A real Trojan Horse
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Recently in the last couple of years I have been doing some study on ancient history and the study of the occult.   I  love Gnostic Warriors  webpage as its just full of great articles on lots of subjects that interests me. 
This is why I thought on Alexander the Great I liked what he said as he put down his description etc.  The study of how demons (daimon or daemon) is also of some interest to me and this is what led me to his post on Alexander the Great! 
 
Alexander the Great on his Steed
Alexander the Great on his Steed
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The Hellenistic Greeks divided daemons into good and evil categories: agathodaimōn (αγαθοδαιμων: “noble spirit”), from agathós (ἀγαθός: “good, brave, noble, moral, lucky, useful”), and kakódaimōn (κακοδαίμων: “malevolent spirit”), from kakós (κακός: “bad, evil”). – (Wikipedia)





From Gnostic Warrior
    -  "On Demons and Kings"

Giulio Romano - Jupiter Seducing Olympias - WG...
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In the Hellenistic ruler cult that began with Alexander the Great (Pictured on coin), It was these priests who had declared Alexander to be the Son of Amon Ra and a God on earth. The Egyptian Amon Ra was the same deity as Zeus of the Greeks. They both represented the planet Jupiter.
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Amun
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When Olympias married Philip II of Macedonia in 357 BC,  she claimed that on her wedding night she had been visited by the god Zeus-Amun and was made pregnant by him.
There would be other men that were mighty war heroes after Alexander, who would also be called gods on earth and proclaim that they were the Sons of Jupiter. Both, Julius and Augustus Caesar had declared Jupiter to be their father. They were also members of the same priesthood of Alexander the Great, that had originally originated in Greco-Egypt, and was then transferred to Rome after Augustus had conquered Egypt in approximately 8A.D.

 This was in the Archaic or early Classical period of Rome, when Augustus Caesar had abolished all other cults and priesthoods in the Empire. The first-century Roman Imperial cult of Augustus had begun at this time, where he was venerated as a living God." 

I have read that scientists have recently  credited Alexander the Greats death to Veratrum Album, more commonly known as White Hellibore a common plant that is poisonous. 

In antiquity, an effective emetic based on white hellebore and a bitter oval seed (which Hahneman believed was the seed of Erigeron or Senecio) was mixed by the physicians of Antikyra, a city of Phokis in Greece.  
(wiki)

It is a well known homeopathic and is used for a variety of reasons and here is the description from :

ABC of Homeopathics 

A perfect picture of Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse.
Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The Profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic.

Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.

BETTER, walking and warmth.
WORSE, at night; wet, cold weather.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The head lines have taken my breath today.

The head lines today are showing that people are just being taken from us now, the resonance has seemingly gone just that low.
Tradies targeted by Queensland government

Bodies found near Pottsville in search for Greg Hutchings and Eeva Dorendahl-Hutchings 

Police release CCTV images of missing Redbank woman

Then there is the Queensland Government targeting tradies.

Then there is Abbott...

Officially not good! PM Tony Abbott has just followed thru on his pre-election threat and suspended Australia's new national network of marine parks. The protection that most of Australia's Federal marine parks was going to offer our turtles, fish, dolphins and whales has now been iced while the Abbott Government takes a couple of years to review the 'science' behind the parks. We can turn this around, but the fight begins now and we need you to be part of it. Tell him, not happy Tony!
http://www.pm.gov.au/contact-your-pm
I could go on and on.  This is how things were foretold they would be and it is happening before our eyes. 

All of the adverse environmental disasters caused by the greed orientated "Mining Madness" that has gripped this land as the corporations trash acres and acres of spirit lands all for money this country will never see anyway.

Families disjointed everywhere, and people eating food and Never seeing this as medicine by and large.  The loss of connection to the planet does not help our entire situation we all face.

The sheer consumerism that grips people to the point where it is a disease or an addiction.  Parents not rearing children.  Children being out of parental care from their first few months of life.
I can't see why others can't see this happening.  It has been done in an incremental way but all the history is there in place and those facts are irrefutable at this point.

Everything in the universe spins down and spins up again.  That is natural law. Like the tides and the seasons.  It is said we are about to go back up again because of a number of reasons.   Most of this is to do with Light.  Our light bodies are being made available to us, but this will not come without much angst, akin to child birth in a way. 

A new Era is being birthed and this will have birthing pains.  The transition time when there is no turning back and its at a level where you almost feel like you have left your body, this is what if feels like.  Like we are standing on a precipice.   Are we going to fly or are we going to fall off the edge.  

Tradies targeted by Queensland government
Tradies targeted by Queensland government
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The parlimentary precinct has moved into our personal lives.  Our freedom to have the right to clean water and to associate with who ever we choose.  We should be able to  go where ever we choose up and down roads that are gazetted roads. But police close these to assist mining companies. 

People think this is ok and its really and clearly not ok because it is corruption and its all for money and for this we will go to hell in a handbag.

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Protecting the Pilliga from Santos

 

 This is YUURRI the friendly female Yowie who lives in the Pilliga Forest - .

The Pilliga Forest is under threat of turning into a SANTOS GAS FIELD it is the heart of the Gomeroi Nation.

The Gomeroi mob and people who care for country are coming togethe
r at the sacred ceremonial fire.
"Back to the Pilliga Forest two day YUURRI (Yowie) Corroboree"

  Sat 1 Feb and Sunday 2 February.

A FaceBook Event page has been created  Pilliga Protectors Two Day Yowie Corroboree for more details

This photo is copywritten by custodians & for use only to protect the Pilliga Forest only
Ruth Forsythe

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Social Organisation of Indigenous Groups in Australia

Social Organisation

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People lived day to day in family groups, banded together as hordes, and met at times of ceremony, when one to several hundred members of a single tribe came together. Members of different tribes met together at the largest ceremonies and gatherings, when there might be over 1,000 people at one gathering.

Aborigines have complex social and marriage laws, based on the grouping of people within their society. They also have a complex kinship system where everyone is related to everyone else.

In order to understand the complexities of their social organisation, it is best to consider it in the following way, dividing it first into three main aspects.
  1. the physical structuring of society in terms of numbers – family, horde, tribe, 
  2. the religious structuring based on beliefs and customs, totems, and marriage laws, and these beliefs divide people into moieties, sections and subsections, totemic groups, and clans. 
  3. Third, there is also a kinship system that gives a social structuring.  The social structuring and kinship system can become very complex and difficult to understand for non-Aboriginal people, but is a natural part of life for Aborigines, and its details vary from tribe to tribe.
The following lists the three main aspects of Aboriginal social structure and then the details and grouping within these are given.
  1. The physical or geographical structuring of the society.

    A tribe or "language group" of perhaps 500 people is made up of bands of about 10-20 people each, who join together for day to day hunting and food gathering. Each band of people can be called a "horde". Within each horde are several families. 
  2. The religious and totemic structuring of the society.

    On a religious level, society in much of Australia is divided into two moieties. These moieties may be based on Ancestral Beings from the Creation Period. Within each moiety are significant animals, plants, or places, which are of a highly religious nature. Each person, as well as belonging to one or the other moiety, is also connected to one or more of these subjects, called "totems". Sometimes moieties are further divided into sections or subsections.
  3. The social structuring - relationships between people – the kinship system.

    The kinship system allows each person in Aboriginal society to be named in relation to one another. This is seen when a non Aboriginal person goes to live in an Aboriginal community, and proudly tells their friends that they have been adopted by the group, being called a "mother/father", "daughter/son" or "brother/sister" to someone.

    When Aborigines accept an outsider into their group, they have to name that person in relation to themselves, to allow that person to fit into their society. This is because they need to have in their own minds the kinship relation of that person to themselves, and that person must have a defined social position.

    The value of a kinship system is that it structures people's relationships, obligations and behaviour towards each other, and this in turn defines such matters as, who will look after children if a parent dies, who can marry whom, who is responsible for another person's debts or misdeeds, and who will care for the sick and old.

    The kinship system allows individual naming for up to 70 relationship terms in some tribes. That is, far more than the European terms "father/mother", "grandfather/grandmother", "uncle/aunt" etc. 

    It is also the system where brothers of one's father are also called, in one sense, "father", and cousins may be called "brother" or "sister". A person knows, of course, who their real mother and father are, but under kinship laws, they may have similar family obligations to their aunts and uncles, the same as they would to their mother and father, and this is reciprocated. 

    The common terms of endearment amongst modern urban Aborigines, "brother" or "sister", used when talking to people, are derived from these kinship terms and associations.
These groups are further described
  1. Tribes or "nations". In Australia, tribes are really "language groups", made up of people sharing the same language, customs, and general laws. The people of a tribe share a common bond and in their own language, their word for "man" is often the word used for the name of the tribe.

    For example, in Arnhem Land, people are called "Yolgnu" when they are from the Yolgnu tribe, and this is the Yolgnu name for "man". People from another tribe are outsiders. Because a tribe is like a small country with its own language, some tribal groups also use the term "nation" to describe themselves, such as the Larrakeyah tribe around Darwin calling itself the "Larrakeyah Nation".

    Tribes were generally not a war- making group, they were not led by a chief, and people generally use their moiety or clan name to describe themselves individually, rather than their tribal name.

    There were an estimated 500 Aboriginal tribes in Australia at the time of European settlement. Of these, about 400 still have people representing them, and in central and much of northern Australia, these tribes are largely intact.

    Stone piles representing two moieties. Photo: David M. Welch.

  2. Moieties. Throughout Australia the moiety system divides all the members of a tribe into two groups, based on a connection with certain animals, plants, or other aspects of their environment. A person is born into one or other group and this does not change throughout their life. A person belonging to one moiety has to marry a person of the opposite moiety. This is called an "exogamous" system, meaning that marriage has to be external to the group. For example, in the northern Kimberley, the two moieties are represented by the two birds, Wodoi the Spotted Nightjar, and Djungun the Owlet Nightjar, who fought in Lalai, the Dreamtime. Wodoi is associated with certain plants such as the edible Cabbage Palm (Livistinia species) and the Kandiwal tree used to make spear throwers. Djungun is associated with the Baler Shell, Rock Cod, Flying Fox and Corella.

    Two stone piles in the photo represent the leaders of these two northern Kimberley moieties, Wodoi and Djungun, Ancestral Beings to the Ngarinyin people. Dicky Wudmurra, far left, explains the legend of how these two ancestors fought each other at this important sacred site.


    A person belonging to one moiety has to marry a person of the opposite moiety. This is called an "exogamous" system, meaning that marriage has to be external to the group. 

    Sections and subsections (sub-classes or "skins"). Most tribes in central and northern Australia also divide people further, into either four groups or eight groups, based on their relation to one another. These divisions can be described as "sections" when there are four, and "subsections" when there are eight groups.

  3. Totemic groups. A totem is an animal, plant or other object believed to be ancestrally related to a person. In the Kimberley example above, people belonging to the Wodoi moiety call the Spotted Night Jar their father. But they will also have other animal or plant associates. For example, Jack Karadada, a Kimberley elder, is named after his totem, the Butcher Bird ("Karadada" in local language). A totem can be represented in nature in the form of a large rock, tree, hill, river, or other landform.  It may have a man made emblem such as when a wooden pole, ceremonial board or other decorated object represents it. Much of Aboriginal art is connected with the imagery of totems.

  4. Clans. The clan is an important unit in Aboriginal society, having its own name and territory, and is the land-owning unit. A clan is a group of about 40-50 people with a common territory and totems, and having their own group name. It consists of groups of extended families. Generally, men born into the clan remain in the clan territory. This is called a patrilineal group.
    Not all members of a clan live on the clan territory. The sisters and daughters of one clan go to live on their husbands' clan territory, if that is the tradition for that tribe.  Although a clan has its own territory, members of one clan will live with another, for the wives of the clansmen have come from clans of the opposite moiety. One can think of this in European terms as if a woman marries a man, but does not change her surname to his. If her surname were her clan name, then despite marrying a man from another clan, her clan name remains and she still belongs to the clan of her father.

  5. Hordes or bands. A horde is an economic group, consisting of a number of families who might band together for hunting and food gathering. It is a term for this group of people, seen through the eyes of non-Aboriginal observers. A horde is not a distinct group in the minds of Aborigines, who more regard themselves as belonging to a particular clan, totemic group, or skin name (section or subsection kinship group). Different members of these groups may be contained within the horde. At the main camp, the horde separates into family groups who each have their own camp fire and cook and eat separately, but who may share food between families.

  6. Families. A family group can be quite large, consisting of a man and his wives, the children from each wife, and sometimes his parents or in-laws. A man often has from two to four wives, ranging from one to more than ten. Nowadays, most men have just one wife.
The Mother in law rule.
 The ban on speaking to one's mother in law.

Aboriginal custom all over Australia bans a person from talking directly to their mother in law. This rule applies to both men and women talking to their mother in law. 

Perhaps this rule was developed to overcome such a common cause of friction in families, when a husband or wife has to endure many years of disagreement or argument from their mother in law! To allow this rule to work, communication took place via a third person. 

So, if you wanted your mother in law to do something for you, you might ask your spouse or another person: 
"Please ask your mother (so and so) to do (so and so) for me". 
When food was divided and shared around campfires, a mother in law had a small fire of her own separate to her son in law or daughter in law and their spouse. 

Her own daughter or son would chat and bring over some of the meat, or perhaps a grandchild would sit with her and act as messenger between herself and her daughter or son's partner. 

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Leard Blockade River Red Gum arrestee Susie Russell statement of events...

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Suzie Russell and Margo McLean find themselves in a situation they didn't expect. 

The girls headed off from camp to check on some trees they heard about and when they arrived they were dumbfounded to find that a 'Eucalyptus Camaldulensis' River Red Gum that was approximately 500 year old Scarred tree was being severely damaged by machinery trying to push it out of the ground.

Suzie Russell ran towards the tree and slid down the trench the digger had dug around the trees roots and even as a surprise to herself she was handed a D-Lock Lock-on implement and she locked onto the tree root in an attempt to save the tree.


Her lock on experience was terrifying as she endured much taunting from officers regarding a black snake that was seen in the area and the fact they could chuck this in on Suzie who was locked on in the hole.

After a couple of hours a key was produced and the lock was undone and Suzie was freed and the tree was pushed over.

The sad fact of this is the cultural significance not even noted and the age of this ancient being! 

This sort of treatment of our trees that are so culturally significant should not be destroyed by mining companies.  I feel so sad for the Gomeroi people who held this tree with great respect.  I always say this will cause much sickness amongst the perpetrators of this criminality and death of culture

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