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Bilngkumu created by Gary Crockett. Bilngkumu is Australian Aboriginal word meaning Saltwater Crocodile. Crocodiles can often be totems for an aboriginal community and are then considered sacred. Not to be hunted or killed.
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Transcript
00:24Before the rivers learn their name
00:29Before the stars were shaped in flame
00:34There moved an ancient one still and true
00:41And in these parts he's called by Linkamoo
00:46Some says he's the carrier, soft and slow
00:53Of spirits from the long ago
00:58He bears their weight through tide and stream
01:04Through half-remembered dreams
01:08At home and fresh, soft where they collide
01:14In bending rivers he rides the tide
01:19The banks grow quiet when he's near
01:28Out of respect, not fear
01:32But all the knowing kind
01:37Of something old that guards the line
01:42His back is marked with stories worn
01:48Of lives once lived, of souls reborn
01:56When someone's path has reached its end
02:01And flesh can walk no curve or bend
02:06He lifts them gently, skin to foam
02:13And turns the current softly home
02:18No cries, no chains, no final plea
02:23Just rivers pull and breathe and see
02:29For all the water ever knew
02:35Is how to carry life on through
02:40So still it moves through reed and spray
02:45By moon and sun, by night and day
02:51By Linkamoo, ancient white and wise
02:57Where all souls rest and water sighs
03:04To be continued...
03:07To be continued...
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