For more than 50,000 years, Aboriginal Australians have incorporated astronomical events into their oral and written traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time–keeping, food economics, and social structure. Aboriginal people made careful observations of the sky, measurements of celestial bodies, and incorporated astronomical events into complex banks of knowledge commonly shared either through the genre of narrative, or the genre of information, and often accompanied with symbolic representations knows as visual texts either drawn into the sand, painted, or carved, into rock or timber: by time–keeping using celestial bodies, the rising and setting stars as indicators of special events, observations of variable stars, the solar cycle, and lunar phases (including ocean tides and eclipses), as well as astronomical measurements of the equinox, solstice, and cardinal points.
Extracted from: http://www.emudreaming.com/Further_reading.htm
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Detail:
Ingalpir, the crocodile, is visible in the night sky in JULY.
Stand facing NORTH-WEST. Look overhead and you will see the bright reddish star Antares. An arc of three or four bright stars below Antares and a long curving line of stars above and behind you, ending up on a group looking like a golf club, makes up the constellations of Scorpius – The Scorpion. Three or four stars (part of the constellation of Ara) in a wide arc towards the south east from the Scorpions tail complete the Aboriginal Sky Figure of Ingalpir, the crocodile.
This if the story of Ingalpir, the crocodile which is in the constellation of Scorpius. When Ingalpir is in the evening sky, the Aboriginal people know that the boats of the Malay traders will arrive from the north.
(Extracted from research by the late Robert Mate Mate - Gapinparu Elder – Victoria)
The Cache.
The Cache is located at S23 33.ABC E145 16.XYZ where
N=No of stars which make up the tail section of Ingalpir (across the top)
A=N-2
B=N
C=N
X=N+1
Y=N-3
Z=N+3
