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Barmburrin Mani (Blessed Is the Spot)

July 8, 2023, in Music > Choir, by

We’d like to share this rendition of the prayer “Blessed is the Spot” by Baha’u’llah translated into Woiwurrung, the language of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the Yarra River Valley which covers much of the present location of Melbourne.

In this video Perfect Chord, the Melbourne Baha’i Choir, sings “Blessed Is the Spot”, by Elizabeth Hahn, arranged by Russell Garcia, at a concert on 23 June 2018, as part of Emerge in the North.

Here is the prayer in Woiwurrung:

Barmburrin mani, a wilam, ba mag-golee, ba wilam-deba, ba durrung, ba ngarrak, ba moong-moong-gak, ba merring-jak-koren, ba dun-ngorrm, ba biik, ba warinj, ba bawal, ba banum burndap dhumba-njanjin Bunjil maman.

Find more songs by Perfect Chord and the Australian Baha’i Choral Festival on their YouTube channel.

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Sonjel Vreeland

In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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