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Dreaming

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The mythic time of when the ancestors inhabited the land

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Ancestors

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Supernatural beings who emerged and roamed the earth during the time of the dreaming. Gave shape to landscape, created lfe,

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ancestors (lower cased)

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Deceased who can assit the living while requiring religious deovtion

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sites?

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THe symbols the ancestors leave behind are in sites that are charged with sacred power

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Unborn

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Animated children are made animated by ancestors or smthing

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Totem

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A natural entity that symbolzies an idnvidual group that has a siginifcicanse

Totemism

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Rituals

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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

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system of social ordering that are set aside for specific groups
- certian sitse r for men while childbirth are for women

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Initiation

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Rituals that allow young to mature
- symbolic death of childhood

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Wilyaru

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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
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bull roarer

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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
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