Legends and myths abound of men who fly

Legends and myths abound of men who fly. Not too many about women, though!

These stories exist mainly among indigenous groups. But who is indigenous? The Irish are indigenous to Ireland; or are they? The indigenous Native Americans are really travellers settled after aeons of migration. The tribes bear testament to these stages of migration, as families and clans held together to face the rigours of their new homes. They carried with them their legends and developed them to suit new conditions. But at the base of them all were common factors that seemed to bind these indigenous groups to one another in some great patchwork quilt of fraternal psychic relationship.

The old men of the Italian hills know that gifted men can fly. The Hungarians have legends of men who turn to bats and fly by night. The literature is replete with stories of men who fly.

The Australian scene is typical of post-colonial modernity with indigenous groups maintaining their presence at the fringe while colonialist descendants enjoy the façade they have created of Australian life.

Behind the façade lies a different world. Behind the shanties and stereotypes of perceptions of Aboriginal life there exists a dimensional shift, a super-paradigm shift, if you wish, that displaces the normal and moves into a world of different shapes. It is here that men can fly.