AYERS ROCK

AYERS ROCK IN AUSTRALIA IS CALLED ULURU AND IS KNOWN AS A SACRED SANDSTONE ROCK FORMATION.  THE ROCK IS SACRED TO ANANGU WHO IN THE ULURU NATIONAL PARK.  THEY HAVE MANY SPRINGS HERE AND ANCIENT CAVE PAINTINGS AND ROCK CAVES.  IT IS ON THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE.  ULURU IS A LOCAL FAMILY NAME BY THE ABORIGINES,  AN ANGLO SIGHTED THE ROCK THE ROCK IN 1873. 

THIS SITE IS AUSTRALIA'S MOST NOTICEABLE AND VISITED PARK.  THE 348 M HIGH ROCK HAS A LOT OF ROCK BENEATH THE SOIL.   IT IS ABOUT 6 MILES IN CIRCUMFERENCE.  ULURU  HAS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO THE ANANGU FOLKS WHO LEAD TOURS HERE.  THEY TELL ABOUT FLORA AND FAUNA AND THEIR DREAM TIME STORIES.  THE ROCK CHANGES COLORS DURING DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY AND YEAR WITH A A GLOWING RED AT SUNSET AND DAWN.

MOUNT OLGA, 16 MILES WEST OF ULURU HAS SPECIAL PARKING TO GIVE TOURISTS BEST VIEWS OF BOTH SITES AT DAWN AND DUSK.  ULURU IS CALLED A MONOLITH, AS IT LACKS  POINTING AND BEDDING SURFACES.  IT IS A SEDIMENTRY ANDSTONE IN A HO DESERT.  THERE ARE DECREASES IN NATIVE MAMMALS THAT'S IN DANGER OF .  SO MANY FOLKS COME HERE THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS CHANGING.  THEY HAVE 7 SPECIES OF BATS IN ALL OF THE VARIOUS CAVES. AND CREVICES. THEY HAVE A RICH VARIETY OF REPTILES. AND SOME  FROGS  IN THE SPRING AREA COME HERE SUMMER RAINS.   THE ANAGU HUNT IN REMOTE  AREAS OF THE PARK.  KANGAROO, TURKEY, EMU  AND LIZARDS.  THEY HAVE CEREMONIES FOR EACH MAJOR PLANT FOR EACH OF EACH OF MAJOR PLANT FOOD AS THEY ARE PART OF ANCESTRAL DIET.  

THE FLORA IS DIVIDED INTO TREES , SHRUBS, FLOWERS, AND GRASSES.  SOME TREES ARE USED FOR SPEARHEADS AND BOOMERANGS AND BOWLS. AND ENDANGERED.  THERE ARE 34 EXOTIC PLANTS INTRODUCED HERE.  THEIR IS ONLY 11 INCHES OF RAIN  PER YEAR.  

THE ULURAU HAVE 5 SEASONS DURING THE YEAR.  THEY HAVE MANY MYTHS.ONE IS THE  WORLD IS A FEATURELESS PLACE .  NOTHING EXISTED UNTIL THE CURATOR BEINGS TRAVELED WIDELY.   IN CREATING DESTRUCTION  THEY FORMEWD LANDSCAPE TODAY.  ANAGU LAND STILL HAS ANCESTRAL SPIRITS.  THE CREATOR BEINGS REFERRED AS WAPA AITIA.  ANOTHER TALK ANOTHER TALES SAYS THE ROCK WAS BUILT BY 2 BOYS.  AS THEY FOUGHT THEIR BOSSES NOW BOULDERS.

SOME YEARS AGO SOME PEOPLE FEEL CURSED IF THEY TAKE ROCKS.  MANY HAVE MAILED THEM BACK TO REMOVE THEM BACK TO REMOVE THE CURSE.

BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS HUMANS HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 10,000 YEARS AGO.  IN LATE  1800'S THE INTERACTION THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ANAGU AND ANGLOS BECAME MORE VIOLENT.BECAUSE OF GRAZING AND DROUGHT BUSH FOOD STORES BECAME DEPLETED.  POLICE PATROLS WERE INCREASED BECAUSE OF CONFLICT.  LATER IN THE 30'S ANAGU WERE INTRODUCED INTO  TO EUROPEAN FOODS AND WAR.  '

FIRST TOURISTS CAME HERE IN THE 1930'S.  BY THE 1940'S EUROPEANS SETTLED HERE TO PROMOTE TOURISM  OF THE ULURU.  BY 1960'S THE AYER'S ROCK AREA BECAME A NATIONAL PARK.  IN 1985 THE GOVERNMENT RETURNED OWNERSHIP TO ABORIGINES.  THE ANAGU ARE JOINTLY  ,DAMAGING THE PARK.  THE  NAGU DO NOT CLIMB THE ROCK BECAUSE OF THE SPIRITUAL.  TRADITION.  THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MAY START BANNING CLIMBING THE ROCK.

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