The Dreaming

Question 1

Origins of the universe

Answer 1

DREAMING
creation, beginning of everything

Explains the working of nature and humanity

Explains cycle of life and death

Question 2

Sacred sites to indigenous Australians

Answer 2

Associates with ancestral beings

Totemism- the elements in the world co-exsists and linked together

Question 3

Stories of the dreaming

Answer 3

Basis of aboriginal association with land

Interaction and creations of rock formations trees rives and mountains

Essence of beliefs, laws, ceremonies, rituals

Question 4

Symbolism and art

Answer 4

Plays important part in telling stories and preserving sacred laws being passed down

Communicates the dreaming- time of ancestral spirits, law of the values, traditions, customs, ceremonies, obligations

Question 5

Diversity of dreaming for Aborigibak people’s

Answer 5

Dream time stories defer from region to region

Dreaming has many forms including plants humans and animals

Question 6

Importance of dreaming

Answer 6

Ways of hunting

Ethical behaviour

Ancestors

Question 7

Inextricable connection of the dreaming to the land and identity

Answer 7

Totum: a systematic and real link to the land and the kin and the dreaming.

And object or creature that helps to provide aboriginals people with a link to their country

Tribe inhabit an area responsible for hunting animals that is not their own totum, aspects of the land and food supplies are protected