The Ancient tales of the Bowali Visitor Centre, and why (just maybe) you should believe them
- Danielle Willis
- Aug 7, 2016
- 2 min read
The aboriginal tales I’ve been told along my travels will never fail to amaze me. However this one, in my eyes, is particularly special. Why? Well you see, it can be proven. Kind of. If you’re not really one for coincidences.
We were just strolling around an aboriginal art site at the Bowali Visitor Centre, taking in the art work and exploring the landscape as you do, when we came to a halt at a certain piece of artwork and our guide explained the (very believable) meaning behind it.
He told us a story about a group of aboriginal ladies whose men had not returned from their hunt. Weeks went by and after searching high and low there was no sign of them. However according to aboriginal law, women were not permitted to hunt and so they survived on lizards, nuts and berries.
One day, a European Explorer truck stopped off at the area, and this was to be the first time the aborigines had ever come across the whites, trucks especially, so they fled to a sacred place and begged the snake spirit to get rid of the ‘monster’ (truck).
And so he did, and caused it to suddenly rain heaps and buckets, despite being a clear day, which waded off the explorers.
That very day, an American shuttle was set to be launched in Australia, but rather oddly, it rained in the desert, resulting in the cancellation of the shuttle launch.
Thus, I came to the conclusion that maybe aboriginal spirits do exist after all, as we have clear evidence that the people themselves did, and do still exist. Or perhaps it was indeed just a coincidence.
Either way, it’s still a pretty interesting story and one that I thought was worth jotting down in the diary to share with everyone upon my return.
