Tjukurpa In Central Australia

Land is fundamental to the wellbeing of Aboriginal people. The land isn’t just soil or rocks or minerals, but a whole environment that sustains and is sustained by Aboriginal people and their culture. For Indigenous Australians, the land is the core of all spirituality and this relationship and the spirit of 'country' (land) is central to the issues that are important to Indigenous people today. Aboriginals are very attached to the land they live on, because they believe that their ancestors created the land in the Dreamtime. Every tree, rock, leaf and all other natural features were believed to be made by Aboriginal ancestors in the dreamtime. Aboriginal tribes in the past respected each other’s territories and rarely invaded. They were fearful that they would only find hostile spirits there.” …show more content…
These spirit beings often had the form of animals but could change into human form as well, hence they are both the animal and human ancestry’s. The way that these spirit beings interacted with the land was passed down generation to generation through a series of ceremonies and sacred objects known as tjuringas. These sacred objects carry each story and these stories and the full meaning behind them is forwarded on to each aboriginal person at a time of initiation and these stories contain the laws of the land. They are similar to parables in the bible where each story has a moral behind it but as people grow up they become more knowledgeable as they pass through their rites of passage, hence why aboriginal ancestors are considered wise men because they understand a lot of the law and its ways. Dreaming was a reason why the land is so important to indigenous