Boomerang 🪃
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A boomerang — representing the Aboriginal Australian tool/weapon that returns to the thrower, and the universal metaphor for actions that come back to their originator. Boomerangs are one of Indigenous Australian peoples' most sophisticated inventions — not all boomerangs return, but the returning type uses aerodynamic principles to circle back. 'What goes around comes around' is the boomerang principle applied to karma and justice.

Boomerang kids (adult children returning to parents' homes) use the term metaphorically. Used for Australian cultural content, karma and consequence metaphors, the physics of returning trajectories, indigenous craft traditions, and any expression of actions whose effects return to the person who initiated them.