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Aboriginal Australia Totemic Dreamtime
Belonging Place Taking Care
Aboriginals sing their country; and, perform ceremonies for their country, using ochre depictions of the Dreaming images.
A walkabout is when Aboriginal Australians undertake a spiritual journey to a "Belonging Place" to renew their relationship with their Dreaming and the Landscape.
Clan members regularly move camp and go on cultural journeys for taking care and for corroborees, initiations, and other cyclical, ritualized ceremonies of the Dreamtime.
An individual can
also go on walkabout. When an individual goes on a walkabout, it is different
for different people. It can be a walk to where they originated; or it can be a
walk to where they are part of the land and the land is part of them, a place of
"Sacred Belongingness".
Uluru Belonging Place Sacred Site
The Aboriginals Belong To The Land
By Taking Care
By Singing Their Country
By Preserving Their Sacred Teachings
They Have Stood Strong
May Our Campfires Burn Forever!
The Aboriginal Australians believe that they are connected to all the species. During the Dreamtime the Ancestral Spirits purposefully created every billabong, rock, star, planet, bird, animal, insect, and living creature (including humans and all of the flora), as they travelled across the land and then charged them with the duty to be caretakers of the land and of all the species.
The Aboriginal Australians call this responsibility to safeguard the land and all species, "Taking Care". They sang songs and performed ceremonies to ensure the propagation of each species and the fruitfulness of the land.
They perform their ritual obligations to the land by singing for the country the songs of the "Dreamtime", often accompanied by dance, and sometimes sand drawings.
They also regularly set fire to the land (burn backs) to remove and contain weeds, to promote new growth, and to keep native plants from becoming extinct.
During hunting and gathering, they only took the food they needed. They also moved around in their territory so that the environmental flora and fauna got a chance to rest and regenerate... Go Back
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Aboriginal Australia Totemic Dreamtime Copyright © 2002-2008 Maureen Grace Burns, Blessings Cornucopia. All Rights Reserved.
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