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Originally posted by Tsurugi
...The Dreamings made our Law. This Law is the way we live, our rules. This Law is our ceremonies, our songs, our stories; all of these things came from the Dreaming. ... our Law cannot change, we did not make it. ... The Dreamings named all of the country and the sea they traveled; they named everything that they saw. The Dreamings gave us our songs. These songs are sacred ... are like maps, they tell us about the country, they are maps we carry in our heads. ...
In our ceremonies we wear marks on our bodies; they come from the Dreaming too. We carry the design that the Dreamings gave to us. When we wear that Dreaming mark we are carrying the country, we are keeping the Dreaming held up, we are keeping the country and the Dreaming alive. That is the most important thing; we have to keep up the country, the Dreamings, our Law, our people.
That is not the only way in which the Dreaming has multiple forms. In one way it seems to describe creation, while in another it causes creation.
The Dreamtime itself has been explained in a number of ways. Various explanations refer to creators who were mysterious and supernatural beings. They include references to men and women 'just like us' who had the ability to shape-change into animals and other fauna; creators such as the Rainbow Serpent and also All-father and All-mother figures. There have also been references to the creators as heroes and heroines.
These beings are also sometimes referred to as Giants or [a]Ancestors. The Aborigines have many stories about the activities and antics of these beings, some of which are ties to Uluru and its many curious features.
Another interesting aspect of the Dreamtime is that, according to the Aborigines, it is ongoing; in some way it is a "Beginning" that never ended. But at some point in the distant past, the supernatural beings responsible for the onset of Dreamtime disappeared from the sight of men.
Another aspect of the Dreaming that confuses me is that the history of it seems to imply that the Aborigines predate the creation part; somehow their ancestors were witness to the emptiness of the land.
And yet the teachings of the Dreaming also say:
"It was during the Dreamtime that the creators made men and women, decreed the laws which all must obey - their behavior to one another, the customs of food distribution, the rules of marriage, the rituals of initiation and the ceremonies of death which must be performed so that the spirit of the dead would travel peacefully to his or her spirit-place.
Our laws were likely created when the first person to fell thought oh # what if something breaks? then snap. and then from then on everyone he tells or shows is now susceptible to the reality of a break because they openly (or unconsciously) believe its something that can happen in their reality.
Originally posted by Hanslune
Our laws were likely created when the first person to fell thought oh # what if something breaks? then snap. and then from then on everyone he tells or shows is now susceptible to the reality of a break because they openly (or unconsciously) believe its something that can happen in their reality.
This has been tested in reality and failed. When people who had never heard of firearms or been fired at before were fired on the bullets killed them.
edit on 23/9/11 by Hanslune because: (no reason given)