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1233

Had I not seen the Sun I could have borne the shade But Light a newer Wilderness My Wilderness has made —

Emily Dickinson

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Virginia Woolf, 1902 George Charles Beresford

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Nocturne between marches, 2021 Rene Gonzalez

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Eyeless, 2014 Helene Delmaire

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Field of Flowers, 1910 Egon Schiele

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Birthday, 1942 Dorothea Tanning

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In the Beginning

How did the world begin? The Aboriginals thought the earth was flat, a huge plain without animals, people, mountains, or rivers. Then came Dreamtime, when giant semihuman beings arose and wandered over the entire land, making paths from one tribal land to another. They made fire, camped, searched for food, performed ceremonies, laughed and quarrelled like the Aboriginals of later years.  Then something mysterious happened.  Dreamtime came to an end.  These beings, who were believed to have great powers, changed the world. The places where they had performed special tasks became rivers and valleys. Great mountains arose, forests and jungles grew. These creatures changed themselves into plants and animals, thus creating a whole new world.  Everything in the new world was related to the Aboriginals’ ancestors, and so the Aboriginals respected everything that lived or grew there. All around were the spirits of their ancestors—here, and everywhere: in the sky, on the earth, and below the ground. All along the path made by ancestors were sites where something important had happened. Many a site was sacred and secret. Only a few of the wise elders knew the story of the happening, and they dared not tell a woman or child. The punishment could be death. All the Aboriginals believed in Dreamtime, but various tribes had their own special myths that told of the lives and adventures of their own ancestors. These myths explained the world to them. They told about the creatures that gave them food, about wind, rain, and thunder. There were many myths about the sun, the stars—the Seven Sisters, the Milky Way. Some tribes thought the thousands of stars were the flickering fires at the campsite of the sky people. 

Beyond Dreamtime The Life and Lore of the Aboriginal Australian, by Trudie MacDougall and illustrated by Pat Cummings

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Baptism of Christ, 1425 Jan van Eyck

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Spring Fresco, c.1600-1500 BCE Minoan Painting from Akrotiri

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