SOR1 – Notes On Aboriginal Studies & Religion In 1945

Resource Description

Contemporary Aboriginal Studies

Aboriginal Spirituality determined by the Dreaming

• The dreaming chart is divided into three interconnected components each symbolising a key aspect of Aboriginal life and demonstrates how the Dreaming pervades every aspect of indigenous culture.

1. Aboriginals believe the dreaming has provided them will all knowledge and consciousness, thus defining societal norms, relationships and traditional law. This involves the ‘Human World’.
2. For Aboriginals the ‘Physical World’ provides as a story and boundary. Stories of the dreaming are told through significant landforms which become sacred, as the physical world serves as a vessel for sacred customs and knowledge sharing. In addition, landforms represent boundaries separating different landforms who have unique interpretation of the Dreaming. 
3. The ‘Sacred World’ provides law which is immutable, unchangeable and meta-temporal.