stories & beliefs of the religion. For Aboriginal Spirituality the sacred texts are the Dreamtime Stories & Aboriginal Artwork. Dreamtime can be described as the period before living memory when Spirits emerged from beneath the earth and from the sky to create the land forms and all living things. Aboriginal artwork the other sacred text of aboriginal spirituality expresses the stories and events of the past & dreamtime or creation. • Another characteristic of religion that plays an important role is
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d). This project aims to involve specific indigenous customs to enhance and attract tourists‚ giving them a unique experience and at the same time giving them the benefit to learn about Australia’s aboriginal culture. These namely include mainly dreamtime stories‚ music and dance‚ Spears and Boomerangs throwing‚ artefacts and medicinal plants. Therefore this section will mainly concentrate on the Indigenous culture of the place and its involvement in the project. Background The Bendee downs is
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routes and resources. With the knowledge they had due to their access to information about their land led them to know how to travel successfully around the Australian landscape which then enhanced their imagination that helped them compose more dreamtime stories. The Aboriginal people are introduced to the spiritual world through the dreaming stories which are important teachings that make up their identity.The Aboriginal people travelled the same routes through the lands that their ancestors
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groups‚ causing the destruction of Aboriginal spirituality. Through the eradication of the Dreamtime‚ the centre of their spirituality‚ their sense of identity and belonging was lost‚ status and land right continuously denied‚ and kinship groups were fractured. This loss of kinship ties‚ in addition to the perpetual impact of the Stolen Generation‚ resulted in the disruption of the passing on of the Dreamtime stories and tradition‚ which in turn prevented the spirituality being kept alive through the
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For approximately 40 thousand years‚ the Australia’s aboriginals has been the longest surviving cultural background in the history of the world‚ with around 2% of Australia’s population. Australia’s aboriginals migrated from Asia at least 30 thousand years ago‚ comprising 500-600 distinct groups. Their strong spiritual beliefs‚ tribal culture of storytelling‚ art‚ and history tie them together to their land. The aboriginals are characterised by having gods who created humans and surrounding environment
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sites ’ are usually places where important events happened during the Dreamtime‚ the name given to the Aboriginal creation myth. Dreamtime (known as tjurpa) cannot be separated from the land. "The earth is the repository of blood from Dreaming deaths and births...Dreaming is quite literally ’grounded ’." (Rose‚ 1992‚ p.57). As a major part of their spirituality‚ the importance of land is a result of the importance of Dreamtime. The dreaming explains to Aborigines how life began‚ and how all life
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.................................................................................................... 2 Africans vs. Aborigines.................................................................................................................... 3 Dreamtime ...................................................................................................................................... 3 The stolen generation ......................................................................................
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Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy is able to create something aesthetically pleasing or conceptually pleasing out of absolutely nothing. He takes what he can from the land and produces sculptures by melting ice together‚ collecting wood or piling rocks in unique ways. Andy Goldsworthy creates his art using his bare hands alone‚ and while the art is still standing‚ he creates his own significant places. His art would often erode or collapse but for the brief time they are standing‚ his creations
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Aboriginals have always had a strong link between them and the land with the belief of the Dreamtime and the art‚ symbols‚ rituals and totems that came with it. After the white settlement‚ the way in which aboriginals lived their everyday life took a dramatic turn. It had affected their culture for many generations with a disconnection with the land to them. Captain cook arrived to Australia in 1770 and it was believed that there was at least 750 000 Aborigines living in 600 different tribes in
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its head would be buried there. According to Aboriginal myths‚ Uluru provide physical evidence of feats performed by ancestral‚ archetypal beings that travelled across an unformed land during the Dreamtime creation period. It is believe that by simply touching the rocks they can communicate with dreamtime and receive blessings from their ancestors. They also perform rituals in the caves and make new rock
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