Bila (also occasionally rendered Belah) is the personification of the Sun among the Adnyamathanha people. She is a solar goddess, as befitting the general trends among Australian aboriginal peoples, which largely perceive the Sun as female.
In most Aboriginal cultures, the Sun is a woman and the Moon is a man. Some Aboriginal communities describe the Sun woman pursuing the Moon man across the sky from day to day, occasionally meeting during an eclipse.
Jindang, Djindang or Djinda are Noongar words for what in English is called a star. The night time stars are suns in their own right, some bigger than our own Sun, many smaller.
Meriam Mir people of the eastern Torres Strait have names for these lunar phases: The Moon is called meb (which is also the term for a month). The New Moon (thin crescent) is aketi meb. The First Quarter Moon is meb degemli. A nearly Full Moon (waxing or waning) is eip meb.
Meeka Meaning: The Aboriginal word for moon.
Badurru, which means the Milky Way, as well as the ceremony and the pole used in the ceremony, is about a cat and a crow travelling through the Milky Way, and how clans traded with each other.
Migaloo: Ghost or spirit.
Amaroo - Aboriginal Meaning Beautiful Place - Capture magazine.
Kanangra is an Australian Aboriginal word for "beautiful view" and may refer to: Kanangra (ferry), a retired passenger ferry on Sydney Harbour.
In the Aranda-speaking areas of Australia it was believed that the earth and the sky had always existed and had always been the home of Supernatural Beings. The western Aranda believe that the sky is inhabited by an Emu-footed Great Father who is also the Eternal Youth.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Baiame (or Biame, Baayami, Baayama or Byamee) was the creator god and sky father in the Dreaming of several Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-eastern Australia, such as the Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Guringay, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri peoples.
The black symbolises the Aboriginal people, the red represents the earth and the colour of ochre used in Aboriginal ceremonies, and the circle of yellow represents the sun, the constant renewer of life.
NOONGAR WORD OF THE WEEK: GNARNK. Gnarnk means both Sun and Mother.
Overall there are many common words in Noongar, for example: kaya= hello, moort = family, boodja = country and yongka = kangaroo.
Ngaangk, Ngaank, Nanga or Nganga is our nearest Jindang (Star). Like a Noongar mother she epitomises the maternal principles of creation, fertility, warmth, growth and nourishment.
K'gari means 'paradise' in the native tongue.
GUNYAH: place of shelter. GWANDALAN: rest, peace.
Boodja means land/country in Noongar language and the care for Boodja is central to Noongar culture, with the natural environment and culture intrinsically linked. It also relates to a sense of belonging and custodianship, as opposed to ownership.
Manitou (/ˈmænɪtuː/), akin to the Haudenosaunee orenda, is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology.
A survey of newspapers in July 2007 found that the most common Aboriginal word is 'kangaroo', followed by 'wallaby' (which might be influenced by the rugby team of the same name), 'waratah' (also a rugby team), 'koala', 'billabong', 'kookaburra', 'dingo' and 'wombat'.
Aboriginal people of the inland differentiate between permanent water, called Living water, and seasonal water that dries up during parts of the year. For Walmajarri people like Jimmy Pike, the word for permanent water is Jila, whereas the word for seasonal water is Jumu.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
Gubbah. Gubbah, also spelt gubba, is a term used by some Aboriginal people to refer to white people or non-Aboriginal people.
A race-based term that classified Indigenous people of mixed Indigenous and European descent. 'Half-caste' people were defined as those Indigenous people who had one Indigenous parent. Now accepted as an offensive term and no longer used to refer to Aborigines in official records.