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Death and Maier: meteors and mortuary rites in the eastern Torres Strait (Eud kerker: na korep maierira asmer opged Torres Straitge)
Carla B. Guedes, Duane W. Hamacher, John Barsa +4
English: To the Meriam Mir people of Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait, bright meteors are an important element of death customs and beliefs. We draw from a combinat…
physics.hist-ph2018
Twin Suns in Australian Aboriginal Traditions
Duane W. Hamacher, Rubina R. Visuvanathan
The oral traditions of Aboriginal cultures across Australia contain references to the presence of multiple Suns in the sky at the same time. Explanations of this have been largely…
physics.hist-ph2018★ 1 cited
The Planets in Indigenous Australian Traditions
Duane W. Hamacher, Kirsten Banks
Studies in Australian Indigenous astronomical knowledge reveal few accounts of the visible planets in the sky. However, what information we do have tells us that Aboriginal people…