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There are many stories about the creation of the didgeridoo.
There is one saying that during the DreamTime there was giant
that use to visit an aboriginal tribe. The giant had the habit of
abducting the tribe's women, but one day two women could run way
of the giant and get back to the tribe. The elderly thought up a
trap: they will dig a well and then they will cover it with branches
and leaves to get the giant. When the giant came back, the men of
the tribe put the two women behind the well to use them as bait.
The giant ran towards them and felt in to the well, then, the men
of the tribe drove their lances in to his body until he looked like
as a hedgehog. He felt such a strong pain that he bend over himself
and blow his penis and a wonderful sound could be heard. The men
of the tribe got so fascinated that they did the same, but they
could not get any sound, then they went into the forest and got
an eucalyptus trunk hollowed by termites and blown through it. That
way they got the same sound as the giant. The didgeridoo was born
and since then was used by the men of the tribe to accompany the
storytellers, rituals and dances
Another history....
At the early beginnings of time, a group of Australian aborigine
was looking for wood for the fire. They found different kind of
branches, some were eucalyptus. When they had enough wood they came
back to the campsite and they started to build a fire to cook their
food, but suddenly they heard a strange sound. Full of fear they
stopped whatever they were doing because they though it could be
evil Spirits, but sounds were good and nice: they were the Spirits
of the wind blowing a eucalyptus trunk hollowed by termites. They
did the same and in a short time, they got similar sounds blowing
the hollow sticks. This tradition is still alive nowadays when didgeridoo
is used to accompany rituals or talk with the spirits of their ancestors
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