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- noun Plural form of
songline .
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Examples
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It is most dramatically expressed in the Australian aboriginal idea of the 'songlines' that give structure to the world: the aborigine knows the landscape as a series of songs to be sung as you move from this point to that.
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It is most dramatically expressed in the Australian aboriginal idea of the 'songlines' that give structure to the world: the aborigine knows the landscape as a series of songs to be sung as you move from this point to that.
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It is no accident that the Australian Aboriginal people speak of the songlines, for the Bushmen also say that their songs are the lines.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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"Our songlines, our camps, our relics, they're all here."
Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows 2011
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The anthropology of myth - the wild man, the Evil Eye, ghosts, animist spirits - colludes with the psychological songlines marking beat in the consciousness of mankind.
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He wondered if the leylines in the western deserts were the basis of stories told by the aborigines, who said the land was crisscrossed by a large number of mythical songlines or dreaming tracks associated with magical beings.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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The anthropology of myth - the wild man, the Evil Eye, ghosts, animist spirits - colludes with the psychological songlines marking beat in the consciousness of mankind.
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He wondered if the leylines in the western deserts were the basis of stories told by the aborigines, who said the land was crisscrossed by a large number of mythical songlines or dreaming tracks associated with magical beings.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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He wondered if the leylines in the western deserts were the basis of stories told by the aborigines, who said the land was crisscrossed by a large number of mythical songlines or dreaming tracks associated with magical beings.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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I wish my city was dirty enough to practice this. songlines Says:
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