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    The Fethafoot Chronicles: Nyarla and The Circle of Stones
    The Fethafoot Chronicles: Nyarla and The Circle of Stones
    The Fethafoot Chronicles: Nyarla and The Circle of Stones
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    The Fethafoot Chronicles: Nyarla and The Circle of Stones

    By Pemulwuy Weeatunga

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    Always wanted to know more about Aboriginal Australia? Come on a journey through time with warriors of the enigmatic Fethafoot Clan. For 50,000 years my clan have solved problems for the Australian Heart-rock people. Now for the first time in our history, you too can explore our stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 10, 2014
    ISBN9781483544762
    The Fethafoot Chronicles: Nyarla and The Circle of Stones

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      The first book in the series was fantastic! Fast, energetic & yet wonderfully paced for the amazing tale. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. They have given me a new look into an ancient people and country.

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    The Fethafoot Chronicles - Pemulwuy Weeatunga

    9781483544762

    Within the following Chronicles survive the rich, untold stories of the enigmatic Fethafoot Clan. These are tales from Australia’s ancient first people and their beloved sacred land, which they called, Heart-rock: that mysterious sunburnt, harsh terrain of ever-changing ecosystems, commonly known worldwide as The Land Down Under. On the following pages you will find a number of the oral accounts of those feared shaman, witch doctors or evil spirits also known individually as the Kadaicha-man.

    These chronicles will quench the thirsty query into that extensive, intriguing disparity of times between the Aboriginal Dreamtime – when the Creation Spirits roamed the flat dead skin of our land – to when the pale-skinned Ghost-people began their hungry quest across The Mother’s skin and down through the decades until contemporary times.

    When the land-thirsty Ghosts finally reached Australia just a few short generations ago, they found a society of inhabitants that had grown to almost a million souls and had adapted to and were thriving in this harsh land’s unforgiving conditions. They found them thriving over every single portion of the great southern land. However, as for knowledge of my clan, they heard only whispers of supernatural myth and legend – and that, only after discovering that my people spoke as many languages as there were boundaries of the six-hundred plus extended families who each cared for their own nation states – with an intense passion, as profound as the divine passions that had driven the Ghost’s own sacred beliefs and terrible conflicts. As with the Australian Aborigine, Bidjigal warrior Pemulwuy – who led the coastal Eora people’s fight for survival and remarkably prevailed against the first strange, pale-skinned invaders of his people’s lands for 12 harsh years – my own clan name and the mysteries surrounding it have been removed from public knowledge and history, until now.

    Such secrecy is not perceived as a negative for our clan. It is what we have continuously desired. To perform the type of work we are engaged in, secrecy or concealment of our clan is a prerequisite to safeguard our small and utterly loyal family and its works from public knowledge…

    The author

    I am what some in the clan would call most favoured – certainly, honoured. This is not because my work is any easier than my ancient or recent predecessors; rather, it is said because I now have the power – via the written word and an eager knowledge of such descriptive, written language – to ensure that our deeds are remembered in our land, and not just by the clan and those in need of our help.

    For the first time in our known history, we have a way to reveal the long and intriguing history of our clan to the Johnny-come-lately Ghost People’s descendants – and the many new peoples who now also call this majestic, sacred land home.

    Whether indigenous or non, if you were born in Australia – or Heart-rock Land – you may have heard of mythical tales of some of our warriors’ often disconcerting manifestations. These are dusty old tales kept in great-grandfather’s cupboard and only dragged out on eerie, windswept nights and even then, only whispered about around flittering campfires and close family gatherings. Spine-tingling tales about the mysterious, often terrifying, Australian Aboriginal magic-man, or Kadaicha-man as our clan-family of warriors were to become known as, by our own people in the beginning…

    The Clan

    Listen! Heart-rock people! The infamous Fethafoot are still at work today, upholding the law and standards given by the Dreaming ancestors to maintain the links between the heavens, the land and its creatures, in a stable and essential balance.

    It has been passed down that the Fethafoot family and its covert work began not long after the start of time, as we know it, in The Mother’s Dreaming time, after the Dreamtime creation spirits established order. It was a time when one of the creations – that one given language – began to consider itself as superior to all other creatures. These rather wonderful creatures quickly became proud and selfish, insular and arrogant; soon even forgetting why they were bequeathed their part in the cycle of time on The Mother incarnate. Aghast at the pride and irreverence displayed by the air, fire, earth and water language-creatures – so we are told – the ancient elders decided that another separate clan was required – a force to match the singular self-centredness that was swiftly overtaking the lives and pathways of their final beautiful creations.

    Our stories utter that these moulded, walking talking wonders were formed especially to maintain the proper balance between the Earth Mother and the Sky Spirit’s heavens, but alas, they buried that knowledge under self-centred admiration and self-importance, even before the last Dreamtime Spirit’s glorious rumblings of creation had faded. Thus, the Fethafoot Clan was created. Fethafoot men and women were warrior trained to support the Dreamtime design: to guide the people along the proper path so the cycle of life between the people animals land and their mutual connections with the Dreaming would stay wholesome, mutually nourishing – unbroken.

    Initially, clan warriors were only amply trained in the usual skills that our people needed to survive: basic weaponry, spying, hand-to-hand combat and the like. However, the clan was nothing if not open-minded, hungry for knowledge, and long-term future oriented. Soon the clan began to seek, analyse and utilise any and all martial art, magic, weaponry or mind-training skills that we heard about, or encountered. Consequently, very early on in the clan’s growth, our elders began to train our young warriors in mental, physical and spiritual abilities. Spiritually, often in somewhat dangerous areas of powerful magic – unknown to most and never heard of at all – by the narcissistic majority.

    We learned about and were trained from youth, in numerous one-on-one fighting skills. Many of these styles were acquired from supple, agile, athletic warriors that came from our northern neighbours across the Mother’s liquid skin. We’d learnt that these calm, confident, well-balanced, short men could do

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