This is a story of “once upon a time”. A time of very very long ago. So long that it stretches 335 million years ago. A time when this earth had one single gigantic continent called Pangaea. A gigantic continent that 200 million years ago started breaking up and drifting apart. To finally form our modern continents of North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia including India, Australia and Antarctica. And what is the proof that all these continents were once joined together. There are a number of them. For one, the East coast of North and South America closely matches and fits like a jigsaw puzzle the West coast of Africa. Two, the fossils found in continents great distances apart are similar and identical. Third, the geology of the borders of these wildly separated continents closely matches each other.
When Pangaea first started breaking up it divided into northern Laurasia and southern Gondwanaland. Much later Gondwanaland broke up to form South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. So it is not surprising that the Aboriginal humans of Australia have much in common with the tribal Gonds of India. There is a collective subconscious memory. Which lives on in their tribal art.
Both aborigines and Gonds use their art to express their culture, history and way of living. Both art forms predominantly use red, black, white and yellow across their artistic canvas. Both use the peculiar art form of using dotted lines in profusion across their paintings. Some people think that the dots were used by the aboriginal artists since the seventies in an effort to hide the true meaning of their paintings. Whatever be the reason for the dots, it is not just coincidence that makes the art of the Gonds so strikingly similar to the dreamlines of the Australian Aborigines.
