They made the rivers, streams, water holes the land, hills, rocks, plants and animals. It is believed that the Spirits gave them their hunting tools and each tribe its land, their totems and their Dreaming. The Aboriginals believed that the entire world was made by their Ancestors way back in the very beginning of time, the Dreamtime. The Ancestors made everything. The Ancestors made particular sites to show the Aboriginal people which places were to be sacred.
The Aboriginals performed ritual ceremonies and customary songs near the sacred sites to please the Ancestral spirits and to keep themselves alive. Distinct tribes had different philosophies and beliefs about the Ancestors who made the world.
Some believed that the Ancestors were animal-spirits. In other places the spirit who created the world were believed to be the Wanadjina. Dreamtime is the foundation of Aboriginal religion and culture. It dates back some 65, years. It is the story of events that have happened, how the universe came to be, how human beings were created and how their Creator intended for humans to function within the world as they knew it.
Aboriginal people understood the Dreamtime as a beginning that never ended. They held the belief that the Dreamtime is a period on a continuum of past, present and future. The Aborigines learned about their beginnings through their Dreamtime creation folklores that told of the momentous actions of the creators.
The myths were the foundation of Aboriginal society and provided certainty about existence. The Australian aborigines believed that the land they occupied was once not in existence like it is today. It was free from form or life, vacuous — empty. They unquestionably believed that this was the way things once were because the ancestors had said so and they would never doubt their word.
It was during what has become known as the Dreamtime, the land, mountains, hills, rivers, plants, lifeforms both animal and human and sky above were formed by the actions of mysterious and supernatural spirits.
Lightning Dreaming. Waterhole Dreaming Ngupawarlu. Budgerigar Dreaming. Wind Dreaming Walpa Tjukurpa. Pintupi Dreaming Tingari. The Canning Stock Route. Japingka Waterhole Dreaming. Marking Stone Dreaming Jalala. Learn More About the Dreamtime. How did the Dreamtime word originate?
Gabriella Possum - Grandmothers Country. What are the Dreamtime Stories in Aboriginal Art? How does the Dreamtime relate to the culture of Aboriginal peoples? Back to Dreamtime Stories List.
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Stop feeling bad about not knowing. Make it fun to know better. Tip The Dreaming is not the product of human dreams. Vaccinate yourself! Understand better. Dreaming stories explain these beliefs, such as: the lesson not to hurt animals; who one should marry and bear children with according to the Aboriginal skin system , who one should not talk to according to the Aboriginal skin system , how one should show respect in another's Country, how one should welcome strangers to your own Country.
It dictates how one should behave in certain circumstances. These stories are the cultural rules and obligations Aboriginal people are expected to live by, within their culture. The Dreaming is not static or linear.
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