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The Guurrbi Blog: The Artist & The Story-keeper
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. The Artist and The Story-keeper. One of the mala. Or story-teller, is the person selected to translate the paintings into stories. He may also be, like myself, the story-keeper. Who is responsible for passing the stories on - an inherited position which was handed down to me by my father. The milbi malin'. For example, if you look at the painting of the Jiliburu. When it was the time to paint, the story-keeper and the artist would get together, and wo...
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The Guurrbi Blog: Yirmbal - The Creation Story
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. Yirmbal - The Creation Story. This painting is in the Rainbow Serpent cave, and it tells us about Yirmbal, the Creation Story. We all want to know how things are made. Most people look at it in one of two ways - practical and scientific, or spiritual. Is there a Creator? Is there a spirit that gives life? Or is creation just a practical thing that has evolved over millions of years. You visit the Rainbow Serpent Cave on our. Faye Pini @ Fayes4Art.
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The Guurrbi Blog: Willie's tours get world-wide recognition
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. Willie's tours get world-wide recognition. We are immensely proud to have been picked as one of the major contributors to Indigenous Tourism (world-wide! To be featured by The Travel Word. In celebration of Indigenous People's Week 8-12 August 2011. Here's the feature, written by American Aussie Specialist, Karolyn Wrightson. Thank you so much to everyone involved. What an honour! Ancient Teachings in a Modern World:. What our customers say. We hope y...
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The Guurrbi Blog: Warra & The Circle of Life
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. Warra and The Circle of Life. On our Rainbow Serpent Tour. You will see both my family's Birth Site and a painting of dubal. Which was used when someone passed away. In traditional Aboriginal society the Birth Place was a very important site as it marks the beginning of the Circle of Life and gives us our warra. Or spiritual identity. To give you an example, I describe myself as Nugal-warra,. And you can see one drawn over the hand stencil below.
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The Guurrbi Blog: About Willie and Guurrbi Tours
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. About Willie and Guurrbi Tours. This short video was filmed by Imparja TV for their 'Footprints' programme in 2008. On tour with Willie. The meaning of Wawu and Guurrbi. Auf Tour mit Willie. From German TV ARD. Hi Willie, this is a fantastic video. Theres a great deal we can all learn from indigenous Australians. I look forward to going on your tour whenever I get up to north Queensland next. July 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM. December 2, 2011 at 11:10 PM.
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The Guurrbi Blog: Yirmbal - The Rainbow Serpent
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. Yirmbal - The Rainbow Serpent. In one of the rock art sites we visit on tour is a beautiful painting of Yirmbal,. The Rainbow Serpent. In fact there are two paintings here, and you can see a second, older serpent below the more prominent one. The Nugal-warra people also have a special place which is a spiritual reminder to us - a bit like a temple or a church. This is Gubal da Gathay. You can see the rock painting of the Rainbow Serpent on both our Gr...
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The Guurrbi Blog: How to play the didge...on a walking stick
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. How to play the didge.on a walking stick. Sue Wickes, from Mission Beach Tourism, posted this video on You Tube, with the message:. Here is an amazing video of Nugal-warra Elder, Willie Gordon from Guurrbi Tours playing the digeridoo on one of his tour participants walking stick. Willie has such a great sense of humour and had us all in stitches. It's a great tour for kids! More about our tours. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What's on in Cooktown.
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The Guurrbi Blog: The Aboriginal family: Growing up.
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. The Aboriginal family: Growing up. On our Rainbow Serpent Tour. We visit my clan's ancestral Birth Site. Bipa (D1) and Ngamu (M1). Bipa (D2) and Ngamu (M2). My Gami are my same side grandparents - this means my mother's mother, or my father's father. They shared in the responsibility for bringing me up. I could ask them about taboo subjects, like sex, and who I could and couldn't mingle with. They would suggest possible marriage partners for me to...
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The Guurrbi Blog: We've been blown away by your comments...
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Behind the scenes of Willie's magical rock art tours. We've been blown away by your comments. Our customers left some wonderful comments about. On the RACQ " Queensland's 150 Must-Dos. Website. Here are some examples. This is the best trip I have done in Australia. I learnt more about the true Australia and its early peoples and way of life on this three hour trip, than I have living in this lovely land for the past 44 years". Willie Gordon is a natural teacher and national treasure. I can't think of...
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