Aboriginal Flashcards
(12 cards)
Dreaming
The mythic time of when the ancestors inhabited the land
Ancestors
Supernatural beings who emerged and roamed the earth during the time of the dreaming. Gave shape to landscape, created lfe,
ancestors (lower cased)
Deceased who can assit the living while requiring religious deovtion
sites?
THe symbols the ancestors leave behind are in sites that are charged with sacred power
Unborn
Animated children are made animated by ancestors or smthing
Totem
A natural entity that symbolzies an idnvidual group that has a siginifcicanse
Totemism
Rituals
taught to the first humans by ancestors
- use it to draw sacred power or what now
- replenish population of kangeroo
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taboo
system of social ordering that are set aside for specific groups
- certian sitse r for men while childbirth are for women
Initiation
Rituals that allow young to mature
- symbolic death of childhood
Wilyaru
The main initiation
eyes closed men take turns cutting their forearms and letting blood fall until caked with dried blood
- the blood serves to connect the boy symbolically with his relatives\
- next wounds on his neck
- given a bull roarer
- Go live in wilderness and wait till wounds healed
bull roarer
a sacred instrument cosnting of a peice of wood attached to a long string made from sacred hair
- CREATED THE SOUND OF DIETIES. TABOOO FOR WOMEN