Cyclone Dreaming 15 – Badi; Kulunggur

Badi; Kulunggur
There are two locations on the Australian coastline that sustain the highest rate of cyclonic landfall, both at approximately the same latitude BADI (also known as Cope Leveque) on the Western Australia coast, and KULUNGGUR (also known as Daintree) in Queensland. Their Aboriginal names are used here because they are direct links with the Dreaming: the way the cosmic process is conceived in this landscape by people who observed its pattern of change and prospered by conforming to the limitations it sets. The complex sustainable relationships of the Aboriginal peoples are expressed in Dreaming mythologies and celebrated in dances that, in Aboriginal experience, resonate with the rhythm of the cosmos, guaranteeing the continuity of life. Though multi‑cultural Australia cannot be expected to imitate an ancient culture generated in this landscape, it is all too obvious that the practices of the past two centuries cannot be sustained. Indeed, effort is now being made to adjust to the limitations of the landscape: to adopt relationships within it that will restore its capacity to sustain the fullness of life.

A culture that celebrates this landscape shall flourish when our roots are truly sunken into it. When we experience our cosmic significance in imagery that it generates in our unconscious and becomes our Dreaming.