Aboriginal Sacred Sites

Kinship and sacred sites of aboriginal spirituality influence aboriginal peoples understanding of the meaning of life through many ways. Some of the sacred sites they have are the Three Sisters, Uluru (Ayers Rock), and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), as well as Kata Tjuta and Kakadu National Parks and many others. Sacred sites for the aboriginals are places where they have their ceremonies and rituals. The bora ring which is a circle or oval marked on the ground is associated with aboriginal’s rituals and gatherings. During the dreaming, dreaming tracks were made. They are the paths in which the localised ancestral people took. They are also called songlines and these tracks are recorded in story, song, painting and dance. Due to the beliefs of the aboriginal people’s about death and life after death their burial grounds are very sacred. When a person dies in aboriginal spirituality their spirit continues to live. It needs to be released so it can return to its own country and ancestral spirits. Totemic sites are places where the spirit can be born again in a different person. …show more content…
They climbed to the top of the mountain called Mount Connor where their bodies were preserved as large boulders. Another story is that Uluru was scarred during the wars of the serpent spirits causing many crevasses to appear in the exterior of the rock. These creation stories give the aborigines meaning of life because these are the stories of their religion, heritage, what they believe in and how they believe the world was created. These stories were passed on through generation to generation and they live by these