How the Moon Was Made
Cloudskipper is a magical dream bird who creates his own world. This story, How The Moon Was Made, is the fourth tale in The Great Dream series. Cloudskipper uses clouds to create the moon to help his friend Brolly Bird, a dancing Brolga Crane, to find her special necklace! With messages for adults and children alike, this charming little bird will make you smile, think and feel uplifted!
Cloudskipper Dreaming is inspired by the Aboriginal Australian Dreamtime stories and creation myths. It is also influenced by the storytelling traditions and mythology of ancient cultures and their connection with the other-world experienced by shamans and mystics. The concept that life is a dream is common to many spiritual traditions including the Aboriginals, Tibetans and Buddhists.
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Symbolism
Dreamtime stories take place in the dreaming, a magical place similar to where night time dreams occur. The laws that govern the dreaming are different from those that govern the physical, waking world. Instead of cause and effect, there is more emphasis on symbolism.
'The tide would surely take it before the light returned.'
The tide on Earth is mainly influenced by the Moon. In the dreaming the tide is independent of the Moon (as the Moon has not been created at this point in the story.) The tide is important symbolically, as the fear of the approaching dark. Here are some other dream symbols from the story and possible interpretations.
The necklace - Brolly Bird's spirit
The Moon - Hope, or light in darkness
The cloud - A magical benevolent being that lives above, in the sky
The dance - Brolly Bird being whole, safe and happy- in good spirits
Full text of How the Moon Was Made
Brolly Bird, the crane, loved to dance.
Cranes are the best at dancing!
She danced and danced, long into the night.
During her dance she lost her precious necklace.
She was so enthralled that she did not notice at first.
So, she asked Cloudskipper, her friend, to help her find it.
They searched and searched, but it was too dark to see.
The tide would surely take it before the light returned.
So Cloudskipper decided to visit the wise old cloud for help.
He gave some cloud to Cloudskipper, who shaped it with his magic.
He let the cloud drift into the sky.
Where it became the moon.
The moon lit the world and Cloudskipper found the necklace.
Brolly Bird was overjoyed!
She danced under the moon to thank her for her help.
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The Great Dream is a fusion of Aboriginal Australian dreamtime storytelling and Tibetan Bon dream yoga practices. In the first part 'The Dream of Creation', Cloudskipper dreams of a five colored rainbow (similar to the rainbow serpent of the Aboriginal Dreamtime), each color represents an element from the Bon tradition. In part two 'How the Stars Were Made' he introduces his friends from the dreaming to the new earth and provides them with guides in the form of beings of light. Next in 'How the Clouds Were Made' he uses sea foam to create a cloud, which provides much needed rain. In the fourth story, 'How the Moon Was Made' his friend Brolly Bird (a Crane) loses her necklace. Cloudskipper visits his cloud friend and is given a piece of cloud which he forms into the moon. The moonlight helps them to find the necklace. Finally 'The First Rainbow' takes the story full circle. Brolly Bird dances for the clouds to thank them for the Moon, the cloud's joy and laughter creates a rainbow.
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How The Moon Was Made features in my book The Great DreamThe Great Dream is a fusion of Aboriginal Australian dreamtime storytelling and Tibetan Bon dream yoga practices. In the first part 'The Dream of Creation', Cloudskipper dreams of a five colored rainbow (similar to the rainbow serpent of the Aboriginal Dreamtime), each color represents an element from the Bon tradition. In part two 'How the Stars Were Made' he introduces his friends from the dreaming to the new earth and provides them with guides in the form of beings of light. Next in 'How the Clouds Were Made' he uses sea foam to create a cloud, which provides much needed rain. In the fourth story, 'How the Moon Was Made' his friend Brolly Bird (a Crane) loses her necklace. Cloudskipper visits his cloud friend and is given a piece of cloud which he forms into the moon. The moonlight helps them to find the necklace. Finally 'The First Rainbow' takes the story full circle. Brolly Bird dances for the clouds to thank them for the Moon, the cloud's joy and laughter creates a rainbow.
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