Comment on In January, is it winter in Australia
Meron35@lemmy.world 1 month agoThe concept for 4 seasons itself is very Eurocentric, and leads to the inaccurate belief that the seasons/climate is messy and unpredictable in Australia.
The native aboriginal peoples have their own season system for each region, which much more accurately describes the weather. For example, the aboriginal calendar identifies 6 seasons in Victoria.
Signfeld@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s actually really interesting, I had no idea. Do you have a link with the page to that image? It got jpeg’d and I’d like to read more.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
[found it] (australiassouthwest.com/six-seasons-of-the-south-…) the webpage it appears to have originally come from described it as being the Noongar 6 season calendar so the names on this chart are Noongar words from South Western Australia not from Victoria which is the South East, so maybe theirs are different.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
www.csiro.au/en/research/…/calendars
Is some good ones.
Each mob basically has its own calendar, so you’re looking at tens or hundreds for the country. That one above for Victoria is different to my part of Victoria.