Explain the Inextricable Connection of the Dreaming, the Land and Identity, Talking Into Account the Diversity of the Dreaming for Abriginal Peoples.
EXPLAIN THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION OF THE DREAMING, THE LAND AND IDENTITY, TALKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DIVERSITY OF THE DREAMING FOR ABRIGINAL PEOPLES.
The Aboriginal people’s inextricable connection to the Land and the natural world provides a link between the people and the Dreaming. This untieable connection dictates their way of life, their Laws, their beliefs, their values and the way in which they treat others individually. This connection has lived and grown within every Aboriginal of different tribes for 40 000 years and are known to have the longest cultural history in the world.
The Dreaming “a reality which consists of the present, the past and the future” (D:\Aboriginal Spirituality mrachmar_com.htme) is not regarded as myths by Aboriginal people, but rather a set of morals and social bonds that reveal an unbreakable link between humans, ancestral beings and the spiritual world.
“The Dreaming holds all the principals of the Aboriginals living together. To them all things were created by it.”(Thompson, L. 1998, Fighting for survival, The Ngaanyatijarra of the Gibson Desert, Heinemann Library, Melbourne) The vast diversity of about 600 Aboriginal nations within Australia contributes to the varying forms and understandings of the Dreaming. It gives Aboriginal people a meaning towards human life, as well as giving a view of how the physical, spiritual and human elements unify to form an ongoing cycle of life.
The Dreaming stories can and may differ from other Aboriginal groups. An aspect that contributes to the diversity of the Dreaming is language. Each of the Aboriginal nations has their own dialect by which they use to communicate. This means that the language differs amongst the different Aboriginal groups and as a result, there are differences in their Dreaming accounts. Geographical location is also another factor which contributes to the diversity of the Dreaming stories. Since Aboriginals are known to be semi-nomadic people and move
The Aboriginal people’s inextricable connection to the Land and the natural world provides a link between the people and the Dreaming. This untieable connection dictates their way of life, their Laws, their beliefs, their values and the way in which they treat others individually. This connection has lived and grown within every Aboriginal of different tribes for 40 000 years and are known to have the longest cultural history in the world.
The Dreaming “a reality which consists of the present, the past and the future” (D:\Aboriginal Spirituality mrachmar_com.htme) is not regarded as myths by Aboriginal people, but rather a set of morals and social bonds that reveal an unbreakable link between humans, ancestral beings and the spiritual world.
“The Dreaming holds all the principals of the Aboriginals living together. To them all things were created by it.”(Thompson, L. 1998, Fighting for survival, The Ngaanyatijarra of the Gibson Desert, Heinemann Library, Melbourne) The vast diversity of about 600 Aboriginal nations within Australia contributes to the varying forms and understandings of the Dreaming. It gives Aboriginal people a meaning towards human life, as well as giving a view of how the physical, spiritual and human elements unify to form an ongoing cycle of life.
The Dreaming stories can and may differ from other Aboriginal groups. An aspect that contributes to the diversity of the Dreaming is language. Each of the Aboriginal nations has their own dialect by which they use to communicate. This means that the language differs amongst the different Aboriginal groups and as a result, there are differences in their Dreaming accounts. Geographical location is also another factor which contributes to the diversity of the Dreaming stories. Since Aboriginals are known to be semi-nomadic people and move