Rainbow Serpent Festival

Victoria, Australia

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About Rainbow Serpent Festival

Each long weekend during the Australia Day national holiday, the small city of Lexton in regional Victoria swells from its sleepy population of around 150 to over 10,000 as festival-goers from round the world arrive for the yearly Rainbow Serpent Festival. The Rainbow Serpent Festival has come a protracted way because it commenced in 1998, from a small collecting in a secluded clearing to an internationally diagnosed pageant. The competition has grow to be an institution and annual reunion to its loyal fans. The festival offers a great deal more than the standard lineup of digital music. It is a chance to really escape the commercialism of the contemporary day international and reconnect with the earth in a way that the aboriginals have performed for lots heaps of years.

Rainbow Serpent is the name of the Aboriginal introduction spirit and the pageant’s foremost ranges open with intricate conventional ceremonies which include elders from around the world. The Main level opens with a full traditional Welcome to Country, wherein local Aboriginies bless the land and attendees. When a rainbow is seen inside the sky it is said to be the Rainbow Serpent shifting from one waterhole to any other. The Rainbow Serpent is a protector of the land and the source of all existence. It is one of the oldest continuing religious ideals inside the world and is still a prime cultural and spiritual have an impact on to the Australian aboriginals to this present day.

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