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	Mythology's MythingLinks: Indigenous Peoples -- Australian Aboriginal Peoples
		Aboriginal women did most of the gathering and root-digging of the many plants used by their tribes.
		The Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years, and in all those long generations the land provided them with everything they needed for a healthy life.
		For the Aboriginal person, the bush is a part of him/herself.
	www.mythinglinks.org /ip~australia.html (2002 words)

	22 March - World Water Day 2006: WATER AND WORLD VIEWS: Water and mythology
		Mythology is the body of stories associated with a particular culture, stories attempting in some way to explain aspects of the world.
		Mythology does more than link water with women; in many myths and legends, water is both a source of life and a place of death.
		According to Australian Aboriginal mythology, All-mother arrived from the sea in the form of a rainbow serpent with children (the Ancestors) inside her.
	www.unesco.org /water/wwd2006/world_views/water_mythology.shtml (575 words)

	Australian Aborigine
		Aborigines in northern Australia were often forced to work and the term slavery has been used in regard to their employment.
		The word aboriginal, in use in English since the 17th century to mean "first or earliest known, indigenous", was used in Australia as early as 1789: it was soon capitalised and became the standard name for the indigenous Australians.
		Aboriginal groups in other parts of Australia have their own names, such as Murri in southern Queensland, Noongar (or Nyungah) in southern Western Australia, Nunga in South Australia and Palawa in Tasmania.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/a/au/australian_aborigine.html (1264 words)

	Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities
		Aboriginal people have had their traditional authority figures denigrated by the dominant culture, and families have been splintered by policies, which saw children stolen from their families and communities.
		Aboriginal people of the Pilbara went on strike in 1946 but one of the better known cases of refusing to work under appalling conditions of exploitation for less than basic wages for rich and often absent pastoral leaseholders has been the Gurindji walk off from Wave Hill Station in 1966.
		Aboriginality is not a disadvantage; the racism directed against Aboriginal people both by individuals and institutions is what causes the disadvantage.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/minorities/aborigines.html (2058 words)

	Australia - Aboriginal Mythology
		Aboriginal people believe that they have lived in Australia from the beginning of all things and archaeologists have dated the human occupancy of Australia back many tens of thousands of years to the time when Australia was part of a huge mass of land connected with New guinea and parts of Asia.
		Mythology is also a way of passing geographical knowledge from generation to generation, thus where the thumping kangaroo first thumped there is limestone; the goanna is associated with sandy outcrops, the kingfisher with coal; the pigeon with gold; and the crested pigeon with grinding stones.
		All Aboriginal art that is termed 'traditional' is spiritual in that as the artist works he or she is conscious of the spiritual presence and power of the ancestral being whose story is being told or incidents from whose life are being depicted.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_aboriginal_mythology/index1.htm (14730 words)

	Thousands of POLYNESIAN NAMES OF GODS & GODDESSES for your DOG, CAT, HORSE, PET AND CHILD! From Chinaroad ...
		In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi), Daramulum (“one legged”) is a son of Baiame and Birrahgnooloo.
		In Australian aboriginal mythology, Dhakhan is the ancestral god of the Kabi; he is described as a giant serpent with the tail of a giant fish.
		In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karadjeri), Dilga is a goddess of fertility and growth, and the mother of the Bagadjimbiri.
	www.lowchensaustralia.com /names/polynesiangods.htm (1544 words)

	Dreamtime - stories - central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		The Dreamtime is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		Aboriginal people call Dreamtime the all-at-once time because they experience it as the past, present, and future co-existing.
		Most Aboriginal people believe that all life as we know it today (human, animal, or plant) is part of a vast and complex single network of relationships which can be traced directly back to the great spirit ancestors of the Dreamtime.
	www.britishcouncil.org /learnenglish-central-stories-dreamtime.htm (1629 words)

	Aboriginal_Australia_Totemic_Dreamtime
		For the Aboriginals of Australia, spirituality and the sacred is deeply rooted in the landscape and in their relationship to the environment which sustains them.
		Aboriginals took care of the environment in Australia, making sure that all hunting and gathering activities were balanced; and, resources were conserved.
		There are many different Aboriginal Australia tribes who have their own Dreamtime folklore, customs, languages, and totems; but, there are also many commonalities they share such as: strong kinship and family structures, totems, Elders, skin names, Dreaming, territoriality, ceremonies, songs, storytelling, and strict boundaries between men's and women's business.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Aboriginal_Australia_Totemic_Dreamtime.htm (363 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Aboriginal mythology
		The Aborigines arrived either by way of the now-submerged Sahul Shelf or by rafts and canoes, in one or more waves.
		The people and languages (or dialects) were associated with stretches of territory, and the largest entities recognized by the people were language-named groups.
		The men of the clan were divided into lodges, with each man custodian of the mythology, ritual, sites, and symbols associated with one or more natural species and with ancestral heroes.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/mythology/oceania/aboriginal (262 words)

	Aboriginal Mythology
		In Aboriginal belief, Mamaragan is the man of lightning who rides on a thundercloud and who throws bolts of lightning to men and trees.
		An evil spirit, in the mythology of the Murngin of northern Australia, the Mokoi is said to strike down a person due to the fl magic of a sorcerer.
		In aboriginal cultures, there was a vampire-like being, described as a little red man, approximately four feet tall, with a very large head and mouth.
	hometown.aol.com /helekleinegurl/Aboriginal.html (3377 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: What's new?
		Aboriginal mythology, Anatolian mythology (Hattian, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Phrygian, and Urartian), Arabian/Islamic mythology and religion, Finno-Ugric mythology, Melanesian and Micronesian mythology, Siberian mythology, Syrian mythology (Amorite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, and Moabite), and Tibetan mythology.
		In Greek mythology, Eris caused a fight over a golden apple, an event that led to the Trojan War.
		Instead of a categorization by continent, the mythology area is now is divided in 6 geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania.
	www.pantheon.org /information/whatsnew.html (865 words)

	Mirabilis.ca » Blog Archive » Wollemi find an Aboriginal seat of the gods
		A rock platform in the heart of the Wollemi wilderness may be the closest thing Australia has to Mount Olympus, the seat of the gods in Greek mythology.
		The gallery depicted an unprecedented collection of powerful ancestral beings from Aboriginal mythology.
		Last week the archaeologists who found the platform, Dr Matthew Kelleher and Michael Jackson, returned with a rock art expert from Griffith University, Professor Paul Tacon, a Blue Mountains-based archaeologist, Wayne Brennan, and several of their colleagues.
	mirabilis.ca /2007/04/20/wollemi-find-an-aboriginal-seat-of-the-gods (279 words)

	Center for Archaeoastronomy: A&E News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aboriginal 'doctors' and 'sorcerers' in the early years of European settlement frequently claimed to have visited the Skyworld, often by climbing a tree or a large hill (Clarke 1997).
		Aboriginal seasonal patterns can only be understood when considered in relation to the movement of the cosmic entities observed in the skies.
		STANBRIDGE, W.E. On the astronomy and mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~tlaloc/archastro/ae29.html (1907 words)

	Aurealis - Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Current Issue
		Clearly mythology is the staple of the fantasy writer, and it is an important element in much SF and horror as well.
		Aboriginal mythology is crucial to Australian speculative fiction.
		The use of Aboriginal mythology in white Australian fiction doesn't obliterate Aboriginal culture, it celebrates it.
	aurealis.com.au /issues.php?show=19 (1263 words)

	Australian Sacred Sites - Crystalinks
		Aboriginal spirituality is based on creation stories describing the way the Ancestors left their marks on the land.
		According to Cyril Havecker in his book Understanding Aboriginal Culture, in Aboriginal mythology Uluru is the Intelligent Snake from the higher spirit realms of the universe who brought forth a great rainbow.
		Uluru is depicted by Aborigines as a symbol of fertility.
	www.crystalinks.com /aussacredsites.html (1560 words)

	Aboriginal Culture - Australia - Goway Travel
		Aborigines have survived harsh desert conditions and have a detailed knowledge of the plants, animals and water sources available in the country.
		It is generally thought that Aborigines have been living on the continent for the last 50,000 years, originally migrating from Indonesia.
		They did not develop a sense of land ownership, although Aboriginal children were taught from an early age that they belonged to the land and must respect tribal boundaries.
	www.goway.com /downunder/australia/au_abo.html (1051 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In modern usage, "mythology" is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		For the purposes of this article, therefore, the word mythology is used to refer to stories that, while they may or may not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/mythology (2826 words)

	Australia - Aboriginal Anthropology I
		The Australian landscape and the surrounding natural features were some of the things that shape Aboriginal mythology which, in turn, had become projections of "the time long past".
		In Aboriginal society, the women were responsible for extracting, used and cooked bush foods while older women transmitted knowledge about bush lore to younger women and children.
		Indeed, out of the disputes, discontent, reconciliations, and affection between those who are married, a relationship would seem to emerge which has in it the elements of permanency and the advantages which have, in part, been deduced, and in part, directly formulated by the people themselves.
	www.janesoceania.com /australian_aboriginal_anthropology1/index1.htm (2274 words)

	Ancient Mythology in the Known World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aboriginal Mythology: The Australian aborigines refer to the period before the actual creation of the world as the Alcheringa, the time of the Dreaming.
		Among the aboriginal Aranda people, the earth was believed to be desolate during the period of the Dreaming, while beneath the earth, the moon and the sun and a multitude of uncreated supernatural beings slumbered.
		Each had her separate duty to perform: Clotho spun the thread of life; Lachesis fixed the length of the thread as she held it; and Atropos cut the thread with her shears when the span of life was done.
	www.archetypal.com /xanadu/mythology (2034 words)

	Parks - Aboriginal Partnerships
		For Aboriginal people, land and waters have many interconnected and complex meanings and values and are central to all aspects of people's lives.
		Aboriginal culture in SA is rich and diverse.
		Aboriginal Heritage sites within parks are managed by DEH in consultation with the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division (AARD) of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Traditional Owners, Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal Heritage Committees.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /parks/aboriginal.html (987 words)

	Indigenous Sand Art
		The memory of their form is embedded in cultural mythology or religious perceptions that have existed unchanged for thousands of years now.
		All Aboriginal art is a reinactment of the Dreamtime- a set of ritual practices which constantly reinvent and maintain the indigenous world through the repetition of aboriginal creation myths called Dreamings.
		In this way, western audiences can be exposed to Aboriginal art and yet their understanding of it will be different from an aboriginal’s, whose interpretation will be similarly be different from someone familiar with the area where it was painted, and theirs from the people who hold the Dreaming for that image.
	www.ecopsychology.org /journal/gatherings6/html/Overview/overview_sand_art.html (2718 words)

	Amazon.de: Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Inner Traditions): English Books: Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He believes the Aborigines possess an archaic consciousness vital to the survival of the planet, a view of human life held by ancient hunter-gatherer societies but lost with the emergence of advanced technology.
		Aboriginal people are not stuck in the past, nor are they representatives of a past way of life that Westerners can identify with and make themselves feel better.
		If you are interested in the mythology of the noble savage you may like this new age version of aboriginal culture, but if you are after something real look elsewhere.
	www.amazon.de /Voices-First-Day-Aboriginal-Traditions/dp/0892813555 (902 words)

	Australian Creation Myth
		Professor Sproul, a mythology expert, tells us the traditional Aborigine societies share the idea that the earth and humans were created in a distant past -- in Dreamtime or Alchera.
		This is the period long ago when the ancestral spirits of aborigine tribes walked the earth and living creatures came into being.
		Originally, the Aborigine culture was an oral one, with stories being passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth.
	faculty.unionky.edu /jcooley/I-readings/RLGN.231/Australian.Creation.htm (1018 words)

	Aboriginal astronomers see mythology in stars. 16/08/2005. ABC News Online
		Aboriginal bark paintings, stories and historical archives are helping an astrophysicist to learn more about Indigenous Australians' long history of documenting stars in the southern sky.
		Aboriginal Australians were the first to document stars in the southern hemisphere.
		Mr Bhathal, the director of the university's observatory, says Aboriginal astronomy should be taught to children, just as ancient Greek astronomy is included in courses on the history of astronomy.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200508/s1439086.htm (479 words)

	Aboriginal music of Australia
		Aboriginal mythology tells of a period in the ancient past called the Dreamtime, during which totemic spirits wandered the continent singing the names of plants, animals and other natural features.
		Aborigines used the didgeridoo to communicate over long distances, as well as to accompany songs, and the instrument is commonly considered the national instrument of Australian Aborigines.
		Wanga arose near the South Alligator River and is distinguished by an extremely high note to commence the song, accompanied by rhythmic percussion and followed by a sudden shift to a low tone.
	www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=r&p=a&a=i&ID=1637 (526 words)

	universe of aborigine
		Although all Aborigines shared general beliefs of nature and the universe there was much diversity in specific beliefs, stories, and myths about the world which was due to totemism and the number of Aborigine tribes and clans.
		Mudrooroo, a native Aborigine, said ÒMany, if not most, of our stories and myths are land-centered.Ó(ix) There was little need to record astronomical observations in Aboriginal life so much of their cosmology is based on mythology and general astronomical observations.
		The Aborigines believed that the sky Òwas a rich country with a plentiful water supply.Ó(Mudrooroo, 31) This belief must have been prompted by the lack of water on their plane, the earth plane.
	www.astronomy.pomona.edu /archeo/australia/australia4/australia4.html (1932 words)

	Infobase
		The proportion of Aboriginal children dying in infancy is nearly twice that of the non-Aboriginal population.
		These natural features are important to the mythology of Aboriginal tribes and central to their religious beliefs.
		In the 1930s to 1950s it was common practice for Australian government agencies to encourage Aboriginal women to give up their children for adoption or fostering if they found it difficult to support them.
	www.hi.com.au /resource/rfacts.asp?kla=20&subtopicid=3281 (624 words)

	Aboriginal Spirituality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aboriginal Spirituality is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Their significance to the Aborigines is not merely historical but personal and social, for each individual and group gains a distinctive identity through its association with one or more Dreamings.
		In aborigine myth it is said that there was a great battle here (perhaps the War in Heaven of Revelations) in which creation was thrown out of Dreamtime (the Astral World) and began to live in the material world.
	www.globaloneness.com /aboriginal_spirituality (1082 words)

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