Travel and endless talk connected me to details Chatwin’s Songlines missed | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Mon, 16/10/2017 - 12:43pm

Bruce Chatwin’s book opened my mind to Indigenous spiritual belief. I’ve since learned to glimpse beyond his take on ‘songlines’

I’ve been thinking again a fair bit about Indigenous songlines these past few weeks.

A few years ago I became compelled by songlines – variations of which have long been known as churinga and Dreaming tracks – after travelling partially along one, with Yolngu guides, into the Arafura Sea from north-east Arnhem Land.