Knowra Dreaming Dreaming The Dreaming is a broad English term for Aboriginal Australian understandings of ancestral beings, creation, law, and a spiritual reality that continues in the present.
Country (Aboriginal Australian cultural concept) : Country is an Aboriginal Australian concept linking people with lands, waters, ancestors, law, and responsibilities. The Dreaming is lived through relationships and obligations to particular Countries.
Aboriginal Australians : Aboriginal Australians are the Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and many nearby islands, comprising many distinct peoples and communities. The Dreaming is a broad label applied across traditions that differ among Aboriginal peoples.
The Dreaming (film) : The Dreaming is a 1988 Australian horror film directed by Mario Andreacchio. The film shares the English name but is not the Aboriginal cultural concept.
Rainbow Serpent : The Rainbow Serpent is a powerful ancestral being appearing in diverse Aboriginal Australian traditions. Its stories illustrate how ancestral beings shape landscapes and social responsibilities.
Songline : A songline is a route across Country encoded in songs, stories, names, and ceremonial knowledge. Songlines carry knowledge of ancestral journeys and connect places within the Dreaming.
Ancestral being : An ancestral being is a spiritually significant being associated with origins, place, and the ordering of the world. Ancestral beings feature in accounts of creation and continuing spiritual presence.
Dreamtime : Dreamtime is a popular English term often used for Aboriginal Australian ancestral creation narratives and spiritual traditions. It is sometimes treated as equivalent, though Dreaming better conveys continuing presence.
Baiame : Baiame is a creator figure in traditions of some Aboriginal peoples of southeastern Australia. Accounts associated with Baiame are one regional example, not a universal Dreaming narrative.
Aboriginal Australian kinship : Aboriginal Australian kinship systems organize social relationships, identity, responsibilities, and connections to Country. Kinship can shape responsibilities to ancestral beings, places, and law.
Aboriginal Australian creation stories : Aboriginal Australian creation stories are diverse narratives about ancestral actions that shaped land, life, and social order. They describe events often grouped under the English label Dreaming.
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