Tjilbruke

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Tjilbruke (also Tjirbruki) is an important Ancestor of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains Australian Aborigine/ Aboriginal a creation story. The story tells of a time when all the people lived in accord with peaceful trading Laws which governed all the peoples lives. The Law was brought to the land, and 'Old Tjirbruki' who lived as an ordinary man, a keeper of the Law which came from the South, after the water covered the land. Tjirbruki's dearly loved nephew was killed; for breaking the law and killing a female emu; he came and carried the body of his nephew down the Fleurieu Peninsula coast of Gulf Saint Vincent, after his nephew was killed while hunting. (The path Tjilbruke took along the coast is wrongly referred to as "Tjilbruke's Trail It should be referred to as the Tjirbruki Dreaming Tracks, and is a journey into the Hunter Gatherer Peoples past,and the long History of the Land. It pre-exists the British occupation and colonisation, and the Australian Federation and is the history of thousands of years of generations of Aboriginal People.

The site at WariPari calledWarriparingaa name given to the business package for Aboriginal Education by the Paul Dixon and the Williams Family Clan Group of the Kaurna Aboriginal & cultural Centre Inc'. This site is situated at Sturt Creek in the now metropolitan suburb of Marion, South Australia and ends at the southern town of Rapid Bay, South Australia.

The trail is marked by the tears of Tjirbruki, which created the natural springs, and was markered by Cairns and plaques during the 150th celebration of the "Settlement" of the state of S.A. They can be found along the coast, and in close proximaty to the sea shore, starting at Kingston Park and continuing south along the cost to Rapid Bay. The story of Tjilbruke tells that at sunset every night of his journey Tjilbruke would cry over his nephew's body and his tears became a spring.