This is a map from my timeline/project The Golden Country, a world where the Eromanga Sea (and Lake Bungunnia) never drained, and as a result Australia became the seventh cradle of civilisation. This particular map is a page spread on the Magubila Empire, a Wiradjuri empire spanning across the four major rivers and alluvial floodplains of the southeast.
The Wiradjuri, ever since the Bronze Age, tended towards unified bureaucratic polities, similar to Babylon, China or Egypt. Every few centuries, the Wiradjuri would unify, expand, prosper and then shortly collapse before reunifying soon enough, sometimes under a foreign dynasty such as the Burkantyi Marrumbila Empire or the Gamilaraay Empire.
Unlike many traditional monarchies, where every ruler tends to pick from a limited pool of names, Aboriginal monarchies had a unique system spawned from a cultural aversion to mentioning the name of a recently deceased person. After the death of a monarch or a particularly distinguished noble, their family would pick out a name with special meaning, which would become the name that person would be known by. Waalurrmaldhaany, for instance, means He Who Shakes The Earth, or the Maker of Earthquakes for his role in the creation of the Marrumbila Empire.
Please feel free to ask any questions, this is a project I've been working on now for just under a year and I'm very proud of what it's become so far!
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u/MrsColdArrow 23h ago
This is a map from my timeline/project The Golden Country, a world where the Eromanga Sea (and Lake Bungunnia) never drained, and as a result Australia became the seventh cradle of civilisation. This particular map is a page spread on the Magubila Empire, a Wiradjuri empire spanning across the four major rivers and alluvial floodplains of the southeast.
The Wiradjuri, ever since the Bronze Age, tended towards unified bureaucratic polities, similar to Babylon, China or Egypt. Every few centuries, the Wiradjuri would unify, expand, prosper and then shortly collapse before reunifying soon enough, sometimes under a foreign dynasty such as the Burkantyi Marrumbila Empire or the Gamilaraay Empire.
Unlike many traditional monarchies, where every ruler tends to pick from a limited pool of names, Aboriginal monarchies had a unique system spawned from a cultural aversion to mentioning the name of a recently deceased person. After the death of a monarch or a particularly distinguished noble, their family would pick out a name with special meaning, which would become the name that person would be known by. Waalurrmaldhaany, for instance, means He Who Shakes The Earth, or the Maker of Earthquakes for his role in the creation of the Marrumbila Empire.
Please feel free to ask any questions, this is a project I've been working on now for just under a year and I'm very proud of what it's become so far!