Sacred Geographies – Australia
According to Aboriginal legends in Uluru, during Alcheringa (Dreamtime) ancestral souls in the form of animals and humans emerged from the interior of the Earth and began to wander over the land. Their everyday actions (play, singing, fishing, hunting, marriage, and death) determined the characteristics of the landscape and became a sacred geography.
Sacred Geographies – Tonga
The Tu’i Tonga Empire is said to have been formed around the year 950AD. The first Tu’i Tonga (‘Aho’eitu) located his capital at the village of Toloa on the island of Tongatapu. The main remaining is a monumental stone architecture comprising of three coral limestone slabs.
Sacred Geographies – Yap
Yap was central in the intensive cultural exchange in Micronesia, famously involving the large stonemoney discs quarried from distant islands of Palau and Guam. Indeed, the formalized Yap-focused exchange system known as sawei guided movement of tribute among diverse and dispersed clans in the Caroline Islands.
Sacred Geographies – Palau
The islands of Palau have a rich artistic heritage of weaving, woodworking, performing arts, pottery production, oral narratives, stone statuary, and costume and body art. Palau’s first certain petroglyph site was identified on Babeldaob as a boulder marking the burial of the legendary Surech.
Anthropology trip – The Orangutan in Malaysian Borneo
The understanding of the evolutionary origins of Orangutans and the successful reconstruction of the habits of their ancestors remain unresolved. Notwithstanding their high intelligence, Orangutans live in a relatively simple social system.
The Lost Continent of Atlantis – Plato’s Timaeus
Atlantis has been the topic of debate for over 2,500 years among philosophers, historians, and archaeologists. According to Plato, Atlantis was protected by the god Poseidon who made his son Atlas king of this land.