Speaking with an elder of the yininginga tribe a local Aboriginal tribe of this area, we learned that the local tribes had a different name & tale that explains the geographical range we call the Glasshouse Mountains. These are in fact 7 redundant volcanic plugs left over from the Bezzantine erogeny a long time ago. The volcanoes have long since gone but even before Europeans landed here the Aboriginals saw these hills as ancient long forgotten failed gods and they knew these hills lay on a song line that they named ‘Yntercrapp’ ( the ‘Y’ is pronounced as an ‘i’ sound, the ‘c’ is a ‘g’ sound & the ‘pp’ is a ‘ff’ sound). Amazingly the Aboriginal name is very close to the modern scientific name for this fault line ‘The Intergraph fault line, the fault line that goes nowhere’. Unusually, this fault line starts life near Swindon in Wiltshire, UK, but unlike other fault lines, has no known ending, hence its title.
The Aboriginal names for the 7 hills are ‘Derek’ – the god of gaiety, the gay point, ‘Mike’ – the god of grief, the squat red hill with nothing growing on top, ‘Hans’ – the god of absent-mindedness, the vacant looking hill, ‘Helmut’ – the god of friends in high places, the hill that looks like a helmet, ‘Bob’ – the god of comfort, the hill that looks like an armchair, ‘Dave’ – the god of self-importance, the white topped hill & ‘Gibbo’ – the god of illusion, the hill that looks like a valley.
Of course these hills have been weathered with time & now look significantly different from Aboriginal times. There are however, ancient Aboriginal cave drawings that depict the ‘Yntercrapp’ hills as they looked back then.
Uncanny! & merry xmas to you all.....
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