Shaun Costigan 10KA Mr. Musci
Aboriginal dreamtime
Aboriginals felt as if the land was there mother, it supplied enjoyment shelter and food, it basically supplied there needs. The aboriginals believed that spirits were among them, there were good and evil spirits and they gave consequences to bad doings, this was like a moral for there tales, a guideline for their children that they believed in.
The aboriginals handed down totems to identify ones connection with there tribe/family. A totem is something so simple such as an odd shaped rock or a tree but a lot of meaning behind it, totems are very important to the individual aborigine, they looked after it well and others respected it. Totems remained with the individual for their lifetime and when they die it was believed that their spirit returns to there totems and chooses a woman to then be reborn into a child once again.
Dreamtime is where the stories were made, the beginning of time. Their stories have morals and are like a teaching to be handed down, and their stories are traditionally handed down orally and must be mastered by the teller, a "custodian" of the story. Dreamtime stories existed long, long ago back to their earliest ancestors, where they first begun, their stories consist of animals and natural beings, they believe most of there habitat was created by the large animals such as the Weowie serpent that lives in the core of mount Minara, Guthi-guthi the spirit of their ancestral being summoned Weowie and Weowie travelled the lands and wherever he went he left water hole and streams in the land.
The aborigines strongly believed in their dreamtime, and still to this day there are aborigines around Australia telling these stories to children, tourists and their own people. Their stories stay...
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