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Boorong / Wergaia

Kulkunbulla

Kulkunbulla are two young men in Orion’s belt and sword, a Boorong dance in the sky.

Song and dance carried Law. Museums Victoria stresses that this Orion figure is remembered as performance, not as a Greek hunter.

Torres Strait Utimal also uses Orion, as Tagai’s punished crew. Again: same stars, different pack, never blended.

Mercury’s diagram is a belt of three lights and a sword. It is not a photograph of a ceremony.

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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