Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings

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Queensland And Northern Territory Aboriginal Symbols - an essential part of Aboriginal Australian art and the foundation behind Aboriginal historical records.

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This post provides a brief insight into Aboriginal symbols with all images and art coming from 'Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store'.

http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-art/

If you this post stirs your interest in Aboriginal art and culture we would encourage you to visit the Central Art Gallery here:

http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/galleries/


Many of the symbols used by Aboriginal artists are a variation of lines or dots. Similar symbols can have multiple meanings according to the art region and the elaborate combination of these can tell complex Dreamtime stories.

This symbol represents the tracks of a dingo, which is an Australian native dog.

Roundels depicted in Aboriginal artworks can be camp site or water hole. These sites are culturally significant to Australian Aboriginal people living in Central Australia.

These circles have multiple interpretations: ants (honey ants), fruits, flowers or eggs. These are gathered by Australian Aboriginal women as a food source or used as a bush medicine.

This icon represents the tracks of the goanna. Aboriginal people hunt the goanna by following its tracks in the sand. The Goanna and its eggs are a principal food source (bush tucker).

(There are various symbols depicting the goanna track, depending on the artist's region)

These symbols rockhole, cloud or nest are depicted in Australian Aboriginal artwork. They can have multiple meanings depending on the artist's Dreaming.

This icon represents meeting place (concentric circles) and journey path (lines) . The meeting place is culturally a significant site to Aboriginal men and women.

It is a place where Aboriginal people meet, gather around, sitting in circles.


For more information and symbols:

http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/aboriginal-art-culture/aboriginal-symbols-glossary/aboriginal-symbols-and-their-meanings/


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Cool article. Thank you for sharing. I had no idea about the meaing of those symbols. Eventhough I made this shot of me with some art with "meeting places" some days ago ;)

Nice picture yoganardhista - we have similar tastes in art.

You want to get really freaked out, go check out some of the not so much ancient art and petroglyphs from very early Ireland and compare them to Australian Aboriginal Carvings in rock and stone.


Ignore the rest of this video if you like as I neither back it nor dispute it, but please take a look at 12.00 in the Video , if you know anything at all about Aboriginal symbols can you explain to me how the symbol meeting/gathering place of Women happened to pop up in an 'ancient' Irish site?
I know what I am looking at as I grew up in the Northern Territory and learned what these symbols meant from about the age of nine.
Water holes, meeting places, dreaming tracks, etc etc, but I never thought I would see one on the other side of the world in such a place as Ireland.

Some say all the land was connected at some point in past. And look at pyramids and hieroglyphics - found all over the world too. I guess our ancestors were travelers.

Thanks for popping in and the video southerncross.

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Thank you Cheetah.

for some reason this reminds me of some of the art, used in samurai jack on CN.... i wonder why

This guy?
http://samuraijack.wikia.com/wiki/Samurai_Jack_(character)
Had never heard of him until now.
Thanks CW
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QANTAS - very cool Community News, very cool. SK.


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