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  Sign_language
Many Australian Aboriginal sign languages arose in a context of extensive speech taboos, such as during mourning and initiation rites.
They are or were especially highly developed among the Warlpiri, Warumungu, Dieri, Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlmanpa.
However, these are manually coded versions of the spoken languages, and are not used by the deaf.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sign_language.html   (2032 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Deity
It was not shown, it was denied by Waitz, it was not even alleged by Spencer, that the Australians steadily propitiate or sacrifice at all to any ghosts of dead men.
The Dieri of Central Australia pray for rain to the Mura Mura, a good spirit, not a set of remote ancestral spirits.
Thus the Australians and Andamanese worship a relatively supreme Being and Maker, and do not worship ghosts.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04683a.htm   (7542 words)

  
 Dreamtime (mythology) - tScholars.com
In one version (there are many, many Aboriginal cultures) Altjira was the god of the Dreamtime; he created the Earth and then retired as the Dreamtime vanished.
Alternative names for Aktjira in other Aboriginal dialects and Western Desert languages include Alchera (Arrernte), Alcheringa, Mura-mura (Dieri), and Tjukurrpa (Pitjantjatjara).
C. Elbadawi, I. Douglas, The Dreamtime: A link to the past
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Dreamtime_(mythology)   (507 words)

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