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Yolŋu
Moon and the tides
Yolŋu saltwater people modelled tides as the Moon filling from the sea. Spring tides sit at full and new moon.
Dawes Review notes the predictive power: phase plus position tells you the next tide. Galileo’s one-tide-a-day idea did worse against the same ocean.
Warner described canoe travel and organised tidal knowledge held by the men he worked with. That is ethnography on the public record, not a fishing app.
Mercury’s season marker is a text card plus a Moon that fattens. It does not claim to replace a skipper.
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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