Hello Bernd & listoids,
the same description - ""Chindu chinna waru chingi yaku" in aboriginal
idiom - is told in regard to the Henbury crater field. And as far as I was
told there could be doubts whether it's authentic. Nevertheless it seems
probable that Aboriginies witnessed the Henbury fall, about 4.500 years ago
(Boxhole is much older, ca. 54.000 years).
In any case, it seems that the Henbury craters - and probably others too? -
had the status of tabu for indigenous people. Perhaps caused by fear or
simply respect. Another reason could be the concept of the songlines which
seem to represent the reality as a whole. And as each single structure of
the landscape was present in a certain passage of a song, it seems natural
that the different tribes tried to preserve the landscape as well as the
songs, unchanged as far as possible.
My best,
Matthias
----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pa...@paulinet.de>
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Souslovo, Beaver, Brenham, Plainview, etc.
Hello Matthias and List,
"As far as I know the only early culture avoiding strictly to make use of
meteoritical material was that of Australian aborigines. Would be utmost
interesting to find out, why. Does anyone here know more?"
Ancestors of aborigines living near the Boxhole crater may have witnessed
the Boxhole irons fall and they named this area "Sun walk fire devil
rock."
The word "devil" may be a hint that such objects were the works of
devilish
forces in their eyes and so they preferred to stay away from them !?!?
Bernd
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