MAQ Magazine n. 14 / September 2019
Original peoples have always communicated through artistic means. Art was their medium for explaining some of the deepest meanings of the Cosmos – the secrets of the Universe – the ongoing creation of the Cosmic Dreaming. The Australian Originals mapped these secrets as revealed through the Star Lore (Mundy 2018) - (1). Their languages are “timeless and cyclical, integrating the physical world, conscious mind, and spiritual levels of experience to absorb and reflect ‘the metaphysical drama of creation’ " (Lawlor 1991, 270). Throughout time, the artistic device has provided the Original Peoples with a multidimensional way of describing their world within Cosmic Universal Creation. The Dreaming of the Australian Originals represents a linguistic, artistic means of explaining the ongoing creation of the Cosmos.
It is the language of the physical world and its place in the Cosmos revealing the Cosmos as a “metamorphosis of the invisible spiritual, psychological, and ethical realms” (Mills and Doyle 2019, 2)