Friday 23 September 2022 01:56 AM Giant penis carved into a rock face is discovered deep in the Australian outback trends now
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A giant engraved penis discovered at an Indigenous rock art site is not vandalism but part of an ancient Dreaming story.
The art is estimated to range in age from 5,000 years old to just under 100.
Archaeologists from Griffith University and Iningai Traditional Owners worked together to catalogue the artwork inside a 160m-long rock shelter known as Marra Wonga located near Barcaldine, about 110km east of Longreach in Queensland's outback.
The shelter is filled with more than 15,000 rock carvings, with a large portion of the artwork focused on telling the story of the 'Seven Sisters' from start to finish.
A large engraving of a penis following boomerangs in an Indigenous rock art site near Barcaldine, Central Queensland, is part of a 5,000-year-old Dreaming teaching site (pictured, the penis, representing Wattanuri, chasing after the sisters in the Seven Sisters story)
The site is believed to have been used as a teaching space (pictured, Indigenous researcher Suzanne Thompson in front of a Rainbow Serpent depiction)
The story is one told around the world and is often related to the Pleiades star cluster.
The penis engraving is part of the Seven Sisters story, representing Wattanuri.
'In the story the sisters are pursued by a powerful ancestral being known as Wattanuri, who is often associated with the Orion constellation,' Griffith University Professor Paul Tacon told Sydney Morning Herald.
Other engravings, like six-toed feet, show the site was used to tell Dreaming stories (pictured, feet with varying numbers of toes, up to 11)
'At one stage he goes under the ground and emerges as a giant penis and throws boomerangs at
