Aboriginal Spirituality Flashcards
How many different tribes in Aus?
300 different nations.
Sacred women’s place
Borenore caves
Sacred men’s place
Mount Canobolas
Belief of the evolution
The ancestor spirits arose and their movements fashioned the land. Creation still continues to take place.
Sacred sites
Locations of ancestral spirits.
Individual responsibility
Every individual has a responsibility to dreaming, their responsibility is linked to their tribal totem.
A totem
Plant, animal or landform that links an individual to an ancestors spirit, responsible for their existence.
Totem of Wiradjuri
A goanna
Country with the most Muslims
Indonesia
Songline
Where the ancestral spirits exist
Quickening
When the soul enters the body of the mother (when she is about to give birth)
Dreaming
The idea that in the beginning the land was flat and formless
