I have noticed that a few of the groups here feel a connection to Venus - even being 'from Venus ' and 'returning there . I think it is due to its prevalence in the morning sky . A few traditions in the past ( outside Australia ) have seen 'morning star' and 'evening star ' as two separate things . It seems some Aboriginal groups realized they were the same star . It has here the usual significance of being a herald of the dawn as well .
The 'stars' 'fit in' , in a general way to an essential creation myth ; an earth snake 'Ungud' and a sky snake 'Wallenganda ' , who 'interact' ... Wallenganda is a black snake and also a dark river in the sky ( the dark dust cloud in the Milky Way ) and the stars either side are the campfires of Wallenganda's children camped along the river banks . In a way , the Venus 'star' then represents a stella 'camp' or location to head to .
On the first day of Venus rising ( after 8 days ) is seen as a gateway opening so communication with the ancestors ( that went there ) can be made . Communicating with ancestors is very important in these traditions . The 'morning star pole ' assists in this . .. as described above .
In some raditions Venus is not the actual destination , that is 'Buralku ' an 'island for the dead ' ., travelling along the 'rope of light' (see above post ) .
The 'Morning star pole' is like an 'anchoring post ' for the rope it connects it to earth and makes a pathway up to Venus (in my view , it represents a type of 'half way house' for those 'acclimatizing ' so as they can go on further to the actual location .
there is a similar 'anchoring post ' concept in ancient Egypt , but to explore or compare that might be off topic ?
Its also like a telegraph terminal , communication to and fro with ancestors goes through the pole .
The feathers on the pole represent stars and star groups and Venus itself , the strings are the ropes of light , it has various
other signs on it indicating clans that use it , sometimes signs of the maker of the pole , signs representing locations and ancestors .
For some , Baralku (or similar ) - the land or island of the dead is said to be in the east , as Venus rises there before the Sun , it is thought to connect to that land .
Unfortunately many have misread all this , and unscrupulous people have tried to hijack this tradition and slit it into their ideas about aliens and other non traditional topics , to try and support their modern views about things .
Looking at it from the anthropological perspective might be more productive ; the land of the dead is also the land of creation and the beginning ( for Yolngu people ... up in Arhnam Land ) .... creators , people culture came from 'an island ' in the east .
east of Arhnam Land , towards Cape York is the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Arafura Sea ... going up NE to PNG . It is likely this part of the story is some oral history . When they die , they go over the sea in a canoe , back to the island ... but the sea is also 'up into the stars ' . It might be interesting to compare how many cultures have thois concept ... a lot ! Canoe , Egyptian 'barque' or 'bark ' , River Styx and the ferryman Chiron (in Yolngu culture he would be Nganun ) .
Part of the reason of these studies and comparisons is to identify similarities in very different cultures . and to observe the root and base of certain ideas , aside from their 'cultural clothing ' to identify some 'archetypal ) (meaning common to all aside from culture or time ) human understandings about life and death , ( that is how it is revelant to me as well , I use these 'common' understandings and realizations to add to my own 'base' experience ( again , that which is 'inside' my own cultural conditioning ) and gnosis .
