Reminder that the mythical rainbow serpent might have been essentially the result of a media campaign constructed by a bunch of collaborating tribes to make a shared symbol that would encourage villages to take in refugees after a major flooding disaster
Unfortunately I heard this on a museum tour, so I can’t actually confirm it from something I read. I know there’s a pretty famous book by Bruce Chatwin about the topic but it’s old enough that I’m sure research on the topic has progressed past it.
Reminder that the mythical rainbow serpent might have been essentially the result of a media campaign constructed by a bunch of collaborating tribes to make a shared symbol that would encourage villages to take in refugees after a major flooding disaster
that sounds cool as fuck, do you have anything i could read on it? or even the songways themselves?
Unfortunately I heard this on a museum tour, so I can’t actually confirm it from something I read. I know there’s a pretty famous book by Bruce Chatwin about the topic but it’s old enough that I’m sure research on the topic has progressed past it.