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How did Dreamtime stories get passed down from generation to generation?
Things like dreamtime stories of creations are passed down through storytelling, paintings, song and dance, so this makes it easy for our children to learn at a young age, and then continue to teach their children.
How is the dreaming past present and future?
The Dreaming did not take place at the beginning of time – this is a common misconception. It encompasses the past, present, and future; it is non-linear. As a holistic philosophy grounded in the very earth itself, it cannot be assigned to a past people.
What is the importance of Dreamtime stories within the indigenous culture?
It dictates how one should behave in certain circumstances. These stories are the cultural rules and obligations Aboriginal people are expected to live by, within their culture. The Dreaming is not static or linear. It is the past, but it is also the present and the future.
What is dreamtime in aboriginal culture?
Dreamtime or Dreaming for Australian Aboriginal people represents the time when the Ancestral Spirits progressed over the land and created life and important physical geographic formations and sites. Aboriginal philosophy is known as the Dreaming and is based on the inter-relation of all people and all things.
How are Dreamtime stories structured?
The Dreamtime stories, are the oral form of the spiritual Dreaming, which comprises: Art – the visual form, Dance – the physical form, Customs – the practical form, Music – the acoustic form, Totems – the spiritual forms, Lore – the cultural form, Lands – the physical forms.
How do Aboriginal people tell their stories?
Speaking is the primary form of communication in Aboriginal cultures and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Important communications and histories have been carried across history via various mediums such as message sticks, rock and sand art, body painting, song, dance and carvings.
How does the dreaming affect Aboriginal lives?
The Dreaming is the environment that the Aboriginals lived in, and it still do today. Dreamings allow Aboriginal people to understand their place in traditional society and nature, and connects their spiritual world of the past with the present and the future. The Dreamings explain the creation process.
Why would the word change from Dreamtime to dreaming?
“The Dreaming” and the politics of translation Initially the uptake of Gillen’s terminology was gradual, but it morphed over time into “Dreamtime”. Stanner who gave the term “The Dreaming” the fillip it needed to propel it into the broader English lexicon.
How are Dreamtime stories important?
Dreamtime stories were important to the Kombumerri People of the Gold Coast because they were a way of sharing history that’s thousands of years old and they were also a way of telling our children and passing on to our children and their children’s children, different values that we held within our mob.
What is the meaning of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories?
Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories. The Dreamtime is a term that describes unique stories and beliefs owned and held by different Australian Aboriginal groups. The history of the Dreamtime word and its meanings says something about the development of the ideas held about the Aboriginal world, and how they are expressed through art.
What kind of stories do Aboriginal people tell?
Aboriginal Dreamtime stories speak of events from the time of creation. These stories have been passed on from one generation to the next for thousands of years. Dreamtime stories are also preserved in our songs and dances.
Why are the indigenous people of Australia so interested in dreaming?
The Australian Indigenous people have over thousands of years maintained a link with the Dreamtime and Dreaming stories of the past to the present. Due to their customs and beliefs they have sustained a rich cultural heritage.
How does Aboriginal spirituality relate to the past?
Aboriginal spirituality does not think about the ‘Dreaming’ as a time past, in fact not as a time at all. Time refers to past, present and future but the ‘Dreaming’ is none of these. The ‘Dreaming’ “is there with them, it is not a long way away.