Wp/nys/Charrnock Woman's kallep (Hyades)
The Jindang (Stars) of the Hyades (star cluster) which form an upside down 'V' represent Charrnock Woman's kallep or camp. The star Aldebaran il the bottom right side of Charrnock Woman's kallep (bottom left in the image) represents her campfire, wer it is always burning bright orange. Aldebaran itself is not part of the Hyades star cluster, it just happens to be in the same line of sight. Charrnock Woman's kallep is located half way between the Three Women Elders (Orion's Belt) wer Danakat (Pleiades or the Seven Sisters).[1][2]
Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, and Antares are red-giant stars which are nearing the end of their lives as normal stars and have become variable stars. This was noted by South Australian Aboriginal people in their traditional yarning. This is the only known descriptions of pulsating variable stars in any Indigenous oral tradition in the world.[3] When they reach the end of their lives, these stars are going to die in a supernova explosion. Betelgeuse may be the next star to explode as a supernova near to us[4], or it might be eta Carinae which Northern hemisphere observers tend to ignore as they can't see it.
Charrnock Woman's story wer the description of Charrnock Woman's kallep are written il the Bibbullmun Dreamtime story plaque at the Solar Calendar monument in Victoria Gardens, Claisebrook Inlet, East Perth. The gaps in the wall point to where Ngaangk (Sun) will rise il various dates in the year.
In the ancient Greek myth, the Hyades were full sisters to the Pleiades, with the same father, the titan Atlas, wer ngarngk (usually Pleione, but in some myths Aethra). The Greek name 'Hyades' either derives from 'The Piglets' or 'The Rainy Ones'. 'Rainy Ones' because the Hyades setting in the Western sky just before dawn in October, in ancient times, signalled the start of Winter or the rainy bonar in Greece.
- For the full story of Charrnock Woman see Charrnock Woman (Junda)
- For Charrnock Woman's story wer the origin myth of the Milky Way wer stars see Jindang - Star.
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"The Charrnock Woman animation" - CAN Community Arts Network
English[edit | edit source]
In England the cluster was known as the 'April Rainers', from its association with the April showers often experienced in England, as recorded in the English folk song "Green Grow the Rushes, O". The next line of the song refers to the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) as the song counts down:
Eight for the April Rainers,
Seven for the Seven Stars in the Sky
Ngiyan waarnk[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Martin Goldsmith (2014). "Cosmos culture and landscape documenting learning and sharing Aboriginal astronomical knowledge in contemporary society". PhD thesis. Curtin University, Faculty of Science and Engineering. 1 May 2014. p. 198
- ↑ The Bibbullmun Dreamtime story plaque. On the Solar Calendar monument in Victoria Gardens, Claisebrook Inlet, East Perth
- ↑ Duane W. Hamacher. "Observations of red‐giant variable stars by Aboriginal Australians". TAJA. April 2018. Vol 29. Iss 1. pp 89-107. Retrieved 3 January 2020
- ↑ Kelsie Iorio. "Is Betelgeuse, the red giant star in the constellation Orion, going to explode?". ABC. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020