Kapi Karrinyarra

Kapi Karrinyarra ou Kapi Jukurrpa

Cette peinture représente les rêves de pluie de Karrinyarra ou Mont Wedge au nord de Papunya. Les cercles représentent les trous d’eau et les paires de lignes en sont les éclairages. Les autres lignes connectent les trous d’eau entre eux.

Karrinyarra est associé aux cérémonies liées aux rêves de pluie. Le peuple aborigène croit aux mythes de la création (ou Dreamtime) et considère que ce sont les gardiens des connaissances ancestrales qui détiennent les principes de l’existence.

Peinture d’Australie – Art Aborigène

This painting represents Water Dreaming from Karrinyarra or Mt Wedge north of Papunya. The circles are the water holes and the pair of short lines are lightning. The lines connecting the water holes are reeks or water courses. This site is associated with rain making ceremonies. Aboriginal people believe the Creation or Dreamtime is the beginning of « Knowledge », when the laws of existence were put together. It is also the beginning of time when the supernatural Ancestral beings were born out of their own eternity. It is said the Ancestors moved across the then barren surface of the world, hunting and fighting. They changed the form of the land, creating mountains, rivers, trees, plains, water holes and sand hills. The Ancestors were honoured by Aboriginal people in corroborees performed at sacred sites where the spirit of the Ancestors had become part of the landscape, or turned into entities such as rock or trees.