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	Vladimir Kabo. Australian Aboriginal art and Russian icon painting
		Widespread in the myths and art of the Aborigines is the theme of swallowing and subsequent ejection, for example of those undergoing initiation, as a metaphor for the transition from one metaphysical state to another and as a solution to the problem of transformation.
		An example in Aboriginal art is the depiction twice on one painting of the great mythical hero Lumaluma, as a living being and as a spirit in the form of a skeleton, both being in sacred space and emitting radiance.
		According to the Aborigines, the halo around the head of a Wandjina is normally taken to be a rainbow accompanying the rain or a thunderclouds of the northwest monsoon, riven by lightning.
	aboriginals.narod.ru /rhys.htm (5574 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian Aboriginal mythology
		In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karadjeri), Dilga is a goddess of fertility and growth, and the mother of the Bagadjimbiri.
		In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Tjilpa is the ancestor of the cat-people.
		As of June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-Aboriginal-mythology (2206 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)

	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 (14728 words)

	Talk:Australian Aboriginal mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aborigine is a noun: the adjective is Aboriginal.
		But perhaps it should be Australian Aboriginal mythology as there are Aboriginies in every continent but the entry is only about the Australian ones.
		Koori mythology In general, the indigenous word "Koori" is prefered to the European term "Aborigine" which is, if not actually offensive, at least veers marginally in that direction.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Aboriginal_mythology (306 words)

	Australian Yowie Research
		The bunyip ("devil" or "spirit") is a mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		The expression 'why search for the bunyip?' emerged from repeated attempts by Australian adventurers to capture or sight the bunyip, the phrase indicating that a proposed course of action is fruitless or impossible.
		Although no documented physical evidence of bunyips has been found, it has been suggested that tales of bunyips could be Aboriginal memories of the diprotodon, or other extinct Australian megafauna which became extinct some 50,000 years ago.
	www.yowiehunters.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=899&Itemid=60 (422 words)

	Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Inc
		Aborigines are thus very attached to their sacred sites, and they feel alienated when displaced from their homeland into cities.
		Aboriginals believe there is a "oneness of person, body, spirit, ghost, shadow, name, spirit site and totem" (35).
		Aborigines smoke "quid", a mixture of leaves with ash from the acacia bush, thus increasing drug potency (19).
	www.aiprinc.org /aborig.asp (1866 words)

	Australian Aborigine - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Aboriginal population was decimated by British colonisation which began in 1788, when news of the land's fertility spread to Europeans causing them to begin settling in the Aborigines' land.
		The health and economic difficulties facing both groups are substantial (for instance, life expectancy of Aboriginal people is often 20 years shorter than the wider Australian population, and alcoholism is a serious issue) and the root causes are poverty, grog and the brutality of individuals towards one another.
		Aboriginal groups in other parts of Australia have their own names, such as Murri in southern Queensland, Noongar in southern Western Australia, Nunga in South Australia and Palawah (or Pallawah) in Tasmania.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Australian_Aborigine (2250 words)

	Aboriginal Mythology
		The Australian (Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi) sky-god, son of the creator-god Baiame.
		The Australian natives call her, Mother Eingana, the world-creator, the birth mother, maker of all water, land, animals, and kangaroos.
		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.
	hometown.aol.com /helekleinegurl/Aboriginal.html (3377 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories - myths, legends
		Stanbridge, W.E. 'On the Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria', Proceedings of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 1858, vol.2.
		Legends of the Dreamtime of the Australian Aborigines.
		Haynes, R.O. 'The Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines', Astronomy Quarterly, 7, 4, 1990, pp.193-217.
	www.michaelorgan.org.au /peck3.htm (7814 words)

	Yowie - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters
		One possible origin of the newer name is the aborigine word youree, described as a legitimate native term for the hairy man-monster.
		Researchers have likewise scoured Australian aboriginal mythology for evidence of the ape-like Yowie (as oppose to the hybrid creature described above), but definitive references to anything remotely similar are few and far between.
		An aborigine folk tale (Murri and Koori tribes) of eastern Australiaexplains that when their people first migrated to Australia thousands of years ago, they encountered on the new continent a savage race of ape-men.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Yowie (1066 words)

	Pyramid: Australian Aboriginal Magic
		Aboriginal religions are intimately tied to the concepts of spirits, rituals, and magic.
		Australian Aborigines traditionally believe that all of their people possess some magical powers.
		Aboriginal Initiation may be granted in rare cases, and will require an Unusual Background (Accepted as a member of a tribe), while Karadji Initiation is unlikely ever to be granted to a non-Aborigine.
	www.sjgames.com /pyramid/sample.html?id=4291 (4501 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Mythology
		The Australian Agoriginal culture is based on nature in every aspect.
		It is often thought of as the time in which the world was created, but correctly discribes the process of the world being called into being.
		Alcheringa - term used by the Australian Aborigine for the Dreamtime
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Australian_Aboriginal_mythology (578 words)

	Rainbow Serpent - MSN Encarta
		Rainbow Serpent, in Australian Aboriginal mythology, a creative spirit common to religions throughout much of the country (see Dreaming, The).
		In Arnhem Land, most of which is now an Aboriginal reserve, it is known as Ngaljod and is held responsible for monsoonal storms and floods.
		After extensive analysis of Rainbow Serpent paintings, Australian archaeologists concluded in 1996 that they might have been based on sightings of the ribboned pipefish, a relation of the sea horse.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762506834/Rainbow_Serpent.html (216 words)

	Yowie - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
		It is, in other words, an Australian cryptid analogous to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot.
		Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy has attempted to popularise the scientific term Gigantopithecus australis for the creature (understandably without support from the Australian scientific community), based on his theory that they comprise a relic population of the extinct ape Gigantopithecus.
		Unlike Kinder Surprises, the toy is usually an Australian or New Zealand animal, with a leaflet with educational facts and a picture of the animal.
	www.theblackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Yowie (608 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Art
		Australian Aborigines have been employing the careful arrangement of soils and sands of different textures and colours to create pictures whose patterns and symbolism relate to the stories and myths of the Australian Aboriginal's ancestral tribal and cultural history - their Dreamtime.
		Today there are many indigenous Aboriginal artists who work with convential western materials such as acrylics, canvas or board to create beautiful visual effects, at the cutting edge of modern art, but who have synthesised old traditional imagery to conventional techniques.
		Australian Aborigines have survived for so many thousands of years, often in quite challenging and inhospitable conditions, and their huge success was predominantly due to the indigenous Aboriginal's inate ability to adapt, and it is the expression of that adaptability which we can clearly see in todays fabulous Australian Aboriginal art.
	www.aboriginalarts.co.uk /art.htm (575 words)

	Dreamtime - stories - central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		The Dreamtime is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		It presents in a number of inter-related narratives (or myths) explaining Aboriginal Australian origins and culture, it thus has a complex relationship to the prehistory of Australia.
		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 (2278 words)

	Aboriginal Mythology
		The Australian (Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi) sky-god, son of the creator-god Baiame.
		The Australian natives call her, Mother Eingana, the world-creator, the birth mother, maker of all water, land, animals, and kangaroos.
		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.
	members.aol.com /helekleinegurl/Aboriginal.html (3377 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)

	Dreamtime (mythology) Did You Mean Dreamtime mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Australian Aborigine religion the Dreamtime, also called The Dreaming, is the era before the Earth was created, and a time when everything was spirit and not physical.
		The dreamtime is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
		Australian Aborigines are thought to have the oldest continuously maintained cultural history on Earth (50,000 years or more).
	www.did-you-mean.com /Dreamtime_03mythology04.html (393 words)

	Art Bibliography
		Australian Aboriginal Art: The Louis A. Allen Collection: An Exhibition at the Robert H. Lowrie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley January 17-August 25, 1969.
		Hiatt, L. "Swallowing and Regurgitation in Australian Rite and Myth." In Australian Aboriginal Mythology: Essays on Honour of W E H Stanner, ed.
		Australian Aboriginal Concepts: Papers Presented to a Symposium at the 1974 Meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
	www.unc.edu /home/owen/Anangu_isis.html (7012 words)

	Australian Aboriginal mythology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Australian Aboriginal mythology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The indigenous peoples of Australia can be classified into hundreds of language groups and clans.
		Australian Aboriginal mythology, See also and Australian Aboriginal mythology.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Aboriginal_mythology (601 words)

	Powell's Books - Wise Women of the Dreamtime by K. Langloh (edt) Parker
		Saved from drowning by Aboriginal friends when she was just a child, Parker subsequently gained unique access to Aboriginal women and to stories that had previously eluded anthropologists.
		She studied with the renowned Aboriginal film and stage director Brian Syron and is also the editor of the audio edition of Wise Women of the Dreamtime.
		Parker, whose life was saved by an Aboriginal girl as a child, spent most of her life on an outback ranch and befriended several Aboriginal women.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0892814772-1 (479 words)

	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.
		This is a May 1996 interview with Everret, an Aboriginal medicine man. He speaks insightfully about the differences between his ways and those of the whites where the "bush" is concerned.
	www.mythinglinks.org /ip~australia.html (2002 words)

	Aboriginal Art's Modernity Doesn't Preclude Antiquity / Dream-time evoked in show at Legion
		The term ``Aboriginal art'' suggests antiquity, and we tend to associate the authenticity of exotic artifacts with age, so it is odd to find how much of this work is done in acrylic on canvas.
		Not the foreignness of Australian Aboriginal artists' mythology, but their easy embrace of it is the most disquieting aspect of their work.
		The Aboriginal artists show that it is possible even today for a culture to thrive by passionately inhabiting its myths rather than trying to deny them.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/21/DD89305.DTL (813 words)

	Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur California
		Bill is the son of the legendary Australian Outback writer W.E. (Bill) Harney, he was raised by his Aboriginal mother and adopted father and learned the traditional way of life of the Wardaman.
		Under an Australian Government policy of forced re-education his sister Dulcie was taken away from his family against their will.
		John adds his experience in other world music traditions to his deep respect for Australian Aboriginal culture and music to create his own style of Didjeridu playing that is both unique and innovative while remaining true to the integrity of traditional Didjeridu music.
	www.henrymiller.org /harney.html (849 words)

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