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The Native Australians


            There was land, but it was bare, flat and barren.
             Man and woman were not created and the world was an empty quiet place. .
             Baiame who was the creator molded the ancestors, spirits in the shape of animals or .
             humans that wondered the world encountering many adventures. There was a period .
             called dreamtime that the ancestor would come alive and interact with each other. .
             Ancestors in dreamtime would step out of line and the Rainbow Snake would rush down .
             upon them. During dreamtime Rainbow snake was known as Ngaljod, a feared deadly .
             and dangerous snake to those who are careless. But the rainbow snake was not a bad .
             person and looked upon as vengeful. To some people the Rainbow snake is an old woman .
             who taught humans to did for food and eat. The ancestor disappeared into caves and the .
             ocean to remain underground and ever present so when the Natives practice dreamtime .
             they will always be there guiding them.
             The natives had a close tie to nature. To them all things were sacred and .
             possessed a spirit. They would treat everything with love and peace because they knew it .
             was alive and beheld history. They treated the earth with care because they lived in the .
             wild and relied on water, food, geology and animals for survival. Every bit of land is .
             sacred to the natives because it links them to their ancestors who link them to their .
             beginning and the start of their rituals. Many rituals stemmed from nature and its .
             beauties, they would always keep the fire ambers light because it showed that they would .
             never die out, the fire represented the sacred hoop which life revolved around. Nature has .
             a very close tie to the fait of the natives which allows them to live in peace and harmony .
             with the world.
             The native Australians developed rights of passage. They linked everything in the .
             spiritual world to the physical world. They would believe that mountain and rocks are .
             made troublemaking ancestors bones or fire represents a sacred hoop and spiritual .


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