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My first clear recollection of Koalas as an Animal Totem was my childhood school friend's collection of stuffed Koalas. No problem deciding what to get her as a present for the holidays. Her choice of preferred Animal Totem might have been construed as unusual since we were growing up in southern New Jersey in America. Koala Bears, as they were affectionately called; however, were quite popular at the time in the form of cuddly soft stuffed animals. Nowadays we known that the use of the term Bear in connection with the Koala is incorrect. The association of Koala with the word Bear began when early European settlers called Koalas, Native Bears. Then later on they were sometimes called the Koala Bear. The Koalas; however, are members of the marsupial family rather than the bear family. Indigenous to Australia, Koalas are arboreal herbivores. The name koala was derived from words in the Aboriginal Australian languages such as the Dharuk and Canberra Ngunnawal word Gula, the Blue Mountain Aboriginal word Cullawines, the Murray Region Aboriginal word Karbors; as well as, general Aboriginal names for them like Bangaroos, Cholos, Koolewongs, and Narnagoons. Koala fossils have been found dating from twenty million years ago when the northern half of Australia was rainforest. Fossils dating from more than fifty thousand years ago have also been found which indicate Giant Koalas once inhabited the southern regions of Australia. It was not until Eucalypts forests grew in rainforest places after the climate cooled that the Koalas, a resilient species, adapted their physiology to derive sustenance from a diet comprised mainly of the consumption of Eucalypts.
Koalas rarely descend from the trees to the forest
ground level to drink water because their primary food source of eucalyptus
leaves contains water. Today Koalas live mainly in the rainforests on the eastern coast of
Australia from around Adelaide to the southern portion of Cape York Peninsula.
Although some Koalas live far into the hinterlands when there are suitable
forests in the area, they are not found in Tasmanian and Western Australia where the habitat
is unsuitable.
Koalas have five digits with opposable thumbs which enhance their gripping ability. One of the few mammals other than primates that have fingerprints, Koala fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints that it is difficult to distinguish Koala fingerprints from human fingerprints even under an electron microscope. The Koala is the only animal on the Earth with its unique brain structure. Forty percent of the cranial cavity is filled with fluid. The two halves of the Koala brain, which resemble a pair of walnut halves, sit atop the brain stem but do not come into contact either with each other or with the other skull bones. The low metabolic rate of Koalas enables them to rest motionless for around nineteen hours a day, apparently sleeping most of the time. Although the popular characterization of Koalas is that they are soft and cuddly, the fur of Koalas is actually coarse; and, Koalas who have been disturbed while sleeping have become violent when the sanctity of the Dreaming is violated inflicting considerable injury to humans with their teeth and claws . Although I have felt an affection for Koalas and found them intriguing over the years, it was not until recently that they began to communicate with me in terms of what is known as Power Totem Animal Speak. In the fall of 2006, I added a picture of a Koala in the Aboriginal Australia section of the website; as well as, a few other places. On at least one of the picture captions I had also unintentionally included the word Bear (Koala Bear), which is how they were often referred to in America still. It is sometimes difficult to get through to me these days over the telepathic ethers so to speak so the Koalas had a woman in Australia email me that I had a reference to them as a Bear on my website, pointing out that they were not in fact Bears. The reasons they inspired her to relay this message to me where two-fold. First of all, they wanted to let me know that they had a special planetary mission as the primary Animal Totem of Australia that they wanted me to write about since the Aboriginal Australian god Baiame and goddess Birrahgnooloo were now both serving the peoples of the planet. Secondly, they were aware of the fact that the Bear was no longer the Solar System Animal Totem. To read more about this please see the Inspirational Insights Article, Goose Replaces Bear as Solar System Animal Totem. Therefore for these two reasons, the Koalas thought it was especially important that they no longer be associated with Bears. Since Koalas are so highly evolved and spend most of their time in Lucid Dreaming in the Dreamtime, their Animal Speak is communicated on a higher mental frequency band level that is somewhat difficult to translate into human language. Some of the keynotes they wanted me to communicate about the Dreamtime and Songlines was that humans need to be vegetarians to live longer healthier lives. They need to meditate more and learn to do Lucid Dreaming so that they might have better control over their personal Days and Ways. They need to respect the global environment and the flora and fauna who also inhabit the same planetary biosphere. They also need to enjoy life and relax more with harmonically resonant songs and dances.
The rest of their message is a bit more complex involving the timescapes when
Australia flourished during the Golden Age of Lemuria; as well as, about Aboriginal
Australian concepts like the Dreamtime and Songlines. To read more about these
concepts please see Aboriginal Australia Totemic Dreamtime and Lemuria Lemurian Ancient Culture.
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