(ORDO NEWS) — One of the most intriguing and mysterious legends of the Australian Aborigines is the legend of the Vanjins, the supreme spiritual beings and creators of the Earth and people.
Wanjina Country is a vast area of approximately 200,000 square kilometers of land, water, sea and islands in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia with a continuous culture dating back at least 60,000 years, but possibly much more. The traditional laws and culture of the natives are still alive and active here.
The Worora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul peoples make up the three Wanjina tribes – these tribal groups are the custodians of the oldest known figurative art that is scattered throughout the Kimberley.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about their figurative art, painted on rocks and in caves, is how they depicted wanjin: white faces, devoid of a mouth, large black eyes and a head surrounded by a halo or some kind of helmet.
Ancient astronauts?
Ancient drawings have received a variety of interpretations – from stylized images of people or even owls to the theories of ancient astronauts, which suggest that extraterrestrial beings visited the Earth tens of thousands of years ago and had direct contact with its inhabitants.
Some believe that aliens even played a direct role in the creation of the world, which is reflected not only in the legends of the natives about the time of dreams, but also in the myths and legends of many ancient civilizations around the world.
You might think that there really is a surprising similarity between the Vanjins and the stereotypical image of an alien that we see every now and then in art, cinema and eyewitness accounts.
And many ask logical questions, such as why were the Wanjins drawn with white skin if they depicted another native, all of whom have black skin?
Why were the eyes always drawn so disproportionate to the face and nose? And why were they all drawn without a mouth?
The absence of a mouth is due to two reasons. The first is that they are so powerful that they do not need speech. Secondly, it was traditionally believed that if they had mouths, then the rain would never stop.
But the most surprising and curious is the oral story of the Wanjins, which was passed down from generation to generation, like all Aboriginal stories about the time of dreams.
Vanjins in Aboriginal Creation Stories
The story is this: The Wanjins were “heavenly beings” or “spirits from the clouds” who descended from the Milky Way during their sleep and created the Earth and all its inhabitants.
The Vanjins then looked at the villagers, realized the enormity of the task, and returned home to bring more Vanjins.
With the aid of the dreamtime serpent, the Wanjins descended and spent their dreamtime creating, teaching, and being gods for the natives they created. After a while, the Vanjins disappeared.
They descended into the ground and have since lived at the bottom of the water spring associated with each of these rock paintings.
There, they constantly produce new “seeds of children”, which are considered the source of all human life.
Some Wanjins have also returned to the sky and can now be seen at night as lights moving high above the ground.
The Kimberleys also believe that even after their disappearance, the Wanjins continued to control everything that happened on land, in the sky and in the sea.
Aboriginal tales of dreamtime, cave paintings and cave paintings have often been considered myth rather than reality, as are the stories we find in the teachings of modern religions.
However, recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed the reality of at least some of the dreamtime stories.
For example, tales of huge mammals walking the Earth were once thought to be fantasy.
But finds of “megafauna” fossils, including gigantic mammals, have confirmed that these stories were stories of real events, passed down from generation to generation for tens of thousands of years.
Interestingly, in the territories of these geographical objects, objects were found that indicate that this territory was inhabited as early as 174,000 years BC.
This contradicts the theory that the aborigines originated from Africa and that the inhabitants moved from Africa to Australia about 60,000 years ago. Other researchers suggest that Homo sapiens actually originated in Australia.
Today, the natives of the Worora, Ngarinyin, and Wunumbul tribes still revere the Wanjin, and only certain people are allowed to paint them.
Wanjina is said to be able to punish lawbreakers with floods, lightning, and cyclones, and Wanjina’s paintings are said to have this power, so according to the natives, they should always be approached and treated with respect.
Why would the ancient natives create so-called myths or bizarre stories if it meant so much to them and remains so important to their culture to this day?
So many myths and legends of the past have already been proven by archaeological finds, such as the legend of the city of Troy, the labyrinth of the Minotaur, Norse legends about navigational crystals and much more.
Maybe it’s time for us to admit that the natives of that time simply told about the events as they saw them and as they understood them at that time?
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