Sacred

Uluru is sacred to the local Aṉangu tribe, the Pitjantjatjara people, and the site’s creation & texture are accounted for in their myths.A chain was hammered into the rock in 1964 to aid Westerners in climbing to the top, even though climbing Uluru is forbidden by Aṉangu tradition.  (Actor Sam Neill can even be seen climbing the rock here toward the beginning of Meryl Streep’s 1988 “dingo ate my baby” movie A Cry in the Dark.)As irreligious as I’ve become, it still galls me that people would come onto someone else’s land and intentionally violate the native’s sacred prohibitions.