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Wardaman
Sky songlines
Harney taught that songlines on the ground are mirrored in the sky so that star knowledge traces a route to water and food.
Norris and Harney (2014) give examples, including a Yolŋu Morning Star path from Yirrkala that other language groups still recognise along an east-west line.
Fuller et al. record an Euahlayi eaglehawk songline from Heavitree Gap to Byron Bay, tying Achernar, Canopus, and Sirius. That belongs in a future Gamilaraay expansion, not in this Wardaman card.
The Wardaman pack uses the ecliptic as an ancestral road. One pack, one road. No overlay of every songline in Australia.
Mercury 91 is not affiliated with any Aboriginal Land Council, Torres Strait Islander organisation, museum, or Stellarium. This library cites published ethnoastronomy. It is not a partnership and not a single pan-Aboriginal sky.
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