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How was the dreamtime stories speicial to the aboriginal culture dreamtime the aboriginal stories?
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This is a good question and one that requires a much more detailed explanation than can be given here. However, I will simplify my answer as much as possible. If I make any errors, I ask Australia's First People to forgive me - I mean well.
These stories are vitally important to the Aboriginal peoples for many reasons.
1. They are crucial in preserving knowledge essential to survival in Australia's many and varied environments, some of which can at times test the limits of human endurance. Stories detailing the travels of the Dreaming Ancestors act as guides to significant sites including those where water or food can be found in hard times.
2. They preserve the laws laid down by the Ancestors that govern the way people should interact with each other and with the land and the creatures and plants that share it. This is also crucial to survival.
3. The give detailed information about group land boundaries, details set in law in the Dreaming.
4. They are the method by which people determine kinship and "marriage" laws and the way in which food should be shared and apportioned.
5. They are the basis for ceremony.
6. The stories give detailed instructions for travel within the boundaries of a group's land.
7. On another, simpler level, versions of the Dreaming stories teach children why animals and plants grow, behave and live where they do, and they teach what is correct behaviour and what his not.
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What was dreamtime in aboriginal mythology?
dreamtime is when they tell bedtime stories
How old are aboriginal dreamtime stories?
hello
What are aboriginal paintings about?
Traditional Aboriginal paintings tell stories from the Dreamtime - when and how the world was created.
What are the dreamtime stories about?
The Aboriginal Dreamtime stories told of the time of Creation, when animals became what they are today and landscapes took on their current form.
Aboriginal stories fables about wombats dreamtime?
wombat dreaming
Do different aboriginal tribes have different dreamtime stories?
Yes
What was the huge serpent in aboriginal dreamtime stories?
This was the Rainbow Serpent.
What were the important dreamtime stories?
A:The most important Aboriginal dreamtime stories can never be placed on the internet because they are so sacred they can only be told to male initiates. However the stories we do know show that the dreamtime was the time of creation, and the dreamtime stories deal with where we came from and why we are here. They very much parallel the Book of Genesis, but from an aboriginal perspective.
Are dreamtime story's true?
No they are fake, But to aboriginal people they are important Don't go down the road saying "Dreamtime Stories are fake"
What were the main purposes Dreamtime stories served?
The main purpose of the aboriginal dreamtime stories was to explain how particular land features came to be created, and how the animals came to be. The Dreamtime stories were the Aborigines' stories of creation. They embodied the very essence of Australian aboriginal belief about creation and their own spiritual and physical nature.
What are Australian aboriginal beliefs?
The beliefs of Australian aboriginals consist of a tradition called Dreamtime which is told through stories by healers and doctors in the Central part of the continent. The culture consists of songs and stories from astronomy of the sky at night.
How were the children in the Brewarrina aboriginal mission treated?
The Brewarrina Aboriginal Mission, which opened in 1886, enforced white culture on the Aborigines. As a result, children were made to learn English, and were denied the opportunities to hear Dreamtime stories of their people or be immersed in their own native culture, as it was forbidden for the Aborigines to practise any part of their culture.
