Dreamtime

100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date something and know that culture time scale to actually record the approximate time of their mythology. For example, radiocarbon dating Australian aborigines to tell about when they believe their dreamtime and how it fits into the climate and environment of Australia at the time. If this was after a time of receding flood water it would give us a perspective on their creation mythology. More than trying to understand their time in linking it to…

My grandfather’s grandfather told him, who told me, that years ago a man was sent to Earth to straighten out the people who inhabited it. He was brought to Earth in a vessel and was placed inside a woman’s body. This woman was forced to birth the unknown being that grew inside her. She raised the infant that came from her into the man people respect today. This man spoke of a great and powerful being that would force damnation on all the world if the people didn’t obey his commands. Naturally,…

The Bungle Bungles (or Purnululu) is found and located in Purnululu, Western Australia. The Bungle Bungles is well known for the great ranges, which were only “discovered” by a film team in 1983. The cultural and spiritual significance of this landform traces back to almost 20,000 years ago. Also, the cultural and spiritual aspects of this landform is extremely vital to the vast existence of the landform itself and the people who inhabit it. The primary and original owners of this landform…

Kngwarreye took inspiration from her home country of Alhakere, hence, all her paintings were set in that area of Utopia in the Northern Territory where it is located. Growing up in an Aboriginal community, Kngwarreye learned about dances, dreamtime stories and grew close to the land, her culture and her clan, justifying the inclusion of such in her subject matter. Her career evolved from the painting of ochre on the skin of her relatives to eventually painting with synthetic paint on canvas…

sunset. Uluru is home to the Anangu, the aboriginal people of Australia and is considered really sacred therefore tourists are encouraged not to climb the Uluru. For these Anangu’s, a phenomenon known as Dreamtime represents the essence of their culture, traditions and spirituality. According to dreamtime, the world was a bland place until the ancestors of Anangu emerged and travelled across the world creating beautiful landmarks. Uluru’s creation is passed down from generations of Anangus as a…

have been obtained from the past generations. Aboriginal people introduce themselves and their culture through paintings which were created millenniums ago. (KateOwenGallery 2015) Painting of aboriginals on sacred rocks and barks represent the Dreamtime and the creation of how they lived 50000 years ago. These painting and signs were passed down from…

• The Indigenous culture of Australia is the oldest living cultural history in the world, going back at least 50,000 years.1 • At the time of European settlement, Aboriginals were semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers living off the land. Each clan belonged to a specific territory boarded by rivers, lakes and mountains. For Indigenous Australians, their relationship to the land is a vital aspect of their spirituality and culture1. • Much of the cultural identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…

During the beginning of time, until 600 BCE, people starting expanding their range of living to other places, from the origin point in East Africa. Specifically, the regions of the Middle East, or Egypt on a civilization level, and Oceania, with the Aboriginal Australians coming into play. These regions have had both continuities and differences in their developmental processes, with respect to one another. Although the Egyptian and Australian civilizations had a contrasting social view, their…

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, from South-East Queensland was an Indigenous Australian poet. Her works include many poems and books, while she is best known for her book Stradbroke Dreamtime. The Dawn is at Hand is one of many poems completed by Oodgeroo. This poem is about a better future for all Indigenous Australians and letting go of their past. The theme of this poem is equality and freedom. This is shown in the poem that in the future Indigenous Australians will not be segregated anymore, while…

MODULE 3: Aboriginal Perspective Activity for Children The Dreamtime story chosen to support and create an Aboriginal perspective in a mathematical activity is ‘How the Murray River was made’ a Bangerang story told by Irene Thomas. A story about a woman, walking with her three Dingos’ holding a wooden stick in her hand, dragging it along the ground as she walked. The Toonatpan (snake) slithered after the old woman, where she had made a mark in the ground, making it bigger. The Toonatpan was…